was a Minister for Reconstruction and a Japanese

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serving in the

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in the

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(national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of

Kakeya, Shimane was a town located in Iishi District, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 3,783 and a density of 34.55 per km2. The total area was On November 1, 2004, Kakeya, along with the towns of Daito, Kamo a ...

and graduate of

Keio University , mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword , type = Private research coeducational higher education institution , established = 1858 , founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa , endowmen ...

he was elected for the first time in 2000. His elder brother was former prime minister

Noboru Takeshita was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1987 to 1989 during the bubble economy. Takeshita led the largest faction at the time in the Liberal Democratic Party, which he inherited from Kakuei Tanaka, from the 1980s ...

. Before entering politics in 2000, Takeshita was a reporter with NHK, then began working for his brother as an aide in 1985. He was the leader of the Heisei Kenkyukai faction from 2018 until his death 3 years later, which supported

Yoshihide Suga is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2020 to 2021. He had served as Chief Cabinet Secretary during the second administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe fro ...

in the 2020 Liberal Democratic Party of Japan leadership election. Takeshita was affiliated to the openly revisionist organization

Nippon Kaigi The Right side up ...

. He held an anti-homosexual stand. In July 2021, Takeshita announced that he would be retiring from politics at the next general election for health reasons, having been diagnosed with

esophageal cancer Esophageal cancer is cancer arising from the esophagus—the food pipe that runs between the throat and the stomach. Symptoms often include difficulty in swallowing and weight loss. Other symptoms may include pain when swallowing, a hoarse voice ...

in 2019. He died in office on 17 September 2021.

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External links

Official website
in Japanese. * http://www.takeshita-wataru.com/ 1946 births 2021 deaths People from Shimane Prefecture Keio University alumni Members of Nippon Kaigi Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians 21st-century Japanese politicians Deaths from esophageal cancer Deaths from cancer in Japan Japanese reporters and correspondents {{Japan-politician-1940s-stub