is a Japanese

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of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the

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in the

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(national legislature). A native of

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, he attended

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as a graduate student. He was elected to the first of his three terms in the city assembly of Osaka in 1975. After running unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives in 1986 as an independent, he ran again in 1990 as a member of the LDP and was elected for the first time.

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in Japanese. Living people 1944 births People from Osaka Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Japanese municipal councilors Politicians from Osaka Prefecture People from Yokohama Waseda University alumni 21st-century Japanese politicians {{Japan-politician-1940s-stub