is a Japanese politician.

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He was first elected to the

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in the 1972 general election and represented the

Nagano Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,052,493 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the ...

first district. Following a revamp of the electoral system, he lost his seat to

Kenji Kosaka was a Japanese politician. Biography Kosaka was born in the city of Nagano in Nagano Prefecture, on 12 March 1946. His father is Zentaro Kosaka, also a politician. Kenji Kosaka received a law degree from Keio University in 1968. He worked i ...

in the 1996 general election.

Career

He was born in present-day

Nagano City is the capital and largest city of Nagano Prefecture, located in the Nagano Basin (Zenkoji Daira) in the central Chūbu region of Japan. Nagano is categorized as a core city of Japan. Nagano City is the highest prefectural capital in Japan, wi ...

. Originally a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he co-founded

New Party Sakigake The , also known as the New Harbinger Party, was a political party in Japan that broke away from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on 22 June 1993. The party was created by Masayoshi Takemura. The party was centrist, and had many reformist an ...

in 1993 and served as a senior advisor to Prime Minister

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from 1993 to 1994. He later returned to the LDP and served as Director-General of the

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under Prime Minister

Ryutaro Hashimoto was a Japanese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 1996 to 1998. He was the leader of one of the largest factions within the ruling LDP through most of the 1990s and remained a powerful back-room player in Japanese politic ...

. Tanaka again served as a policy advisor to Hosokawa during his bid for Governor of Tokyo in the 2014 gubernatorial election.

References

1940 births Living people People from Nagano Prefecture Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians New Party Sakigake politicians {{japan-politician-1940s-stub