was a Japanese politician who was a member of Liberal Democratic Party, serving in the

House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often c ...

in the

Diet of Japan The is the national legislature of Japan. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives (, ''Shūgiin''), and an upper house, the House of Councillors (, '' Sangiin''). Both houses are directly elected under a paralle ...

. On September 3, 2007, due to the financial scandal, he resigned as

Minister of Agriculture An agriculture ministry (also called an) agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister f ...

just eight days after he was appointed to the post.

Masatoshi Wakabayashi is a Japanese politician who is a member of Liberal Democratic Party. Career Wakabayashi became the third Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries appointed in Shinzō Abe's first cabinet after Toshikatsu Matsuoka killed himself as ...

became new Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries again. A native of

Yonezawa, Yamagata Yonezawa City Hall is a city in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 81,707 in 33,278 households, and a population density of 150 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Yonezawa is most famous for i ...

and graduate of

Chuo University , commonly referred to as or , is a private flagship research university in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1885 as Igirisu Hōritsu Gakkō (the English Law School), Chuo is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions in the country. The univer ...

, he was elected to the first of his three terms in the assembly of

Yamagata Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Yamagata Prefecture has a population of 1,079,950 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 9,325 km² (3,600 sq mi). Yamagata Prefecture borders Akita Prefecture to the north, ...

in 1975 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1986. He lost his seat in 1993 but was re-elected three years later. On December 27, 2019, Endo died in a hospital in

from

interstitial pneumonia Interstitial lung disease (ILD), or diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD), is a group of respiratory diseases affecting the interstitium (the tissue and space around the alveoli (air sacs)) of the lungs. It concerns alveolar epithelium, pulmona ...

References

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Official website
in Japanese. 1938 births 2019 deaths Chuo University alumni Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Ministers of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan People from Yamagata Prefecture Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Deaths from pneumonia in Japan {{Japan-politician-1930s-stub