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Monarch
  
Akihito

Role
  
Japanese Politician

Preceded by
  
Yohei Kono

Education
  

Preceded by
  
Naohiro Dogakinai

Name
  
Takahiro Yokomichi

Succeeded by
  
Takahiro Yokomichi httpswwwminshinorjpglobaldatafiles00000


Political party
  
Democratic Party of Japan

Similar People
  
Naoto Kan, Ichiro Ozawa, Yukio Hatoyama, Morihiko Hiramatsu

Takahiro Yokomichi (横路 孝弘, Yokomichi Takahiro, born January 3, 1941) is a Japanese politician who belongs to the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and is a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Sapporo, Hokkaidō and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he was elected to the first of his five terms in the House of Representatives in 1969 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party in the electoral district of his late father Setsuo. He left the House of Representatives and was elected to be the governor of Hokkaidō, serving for three terms from 1983 to 1995. After resigning as governor, he left the Socialist Party, joining the DPJ. In 1996 he was re-elected to the House of Representatives. He is the leader of the most left-leaning faction in the DPJ. After the victory of 2009 elections, then-DPJ President Yukio Hatoyama named him as the next house speaker of the House of Representatives.

In the 2012 general election Yokomichi lost his single-seat electorate but retained a seat in the diet through the proportional representation system.

References

Takahiro Yokomichi Wikipedia


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