Goji Sakamoto | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Constituency: | Fukushima 5th |
Term Start: | 19 December 2012 |
Term End: | 21 November 2014 |
Predecessor: | Izumi Yoshida |
Successor: | Masayoshi Yoshino |
Constituency1: | Fukushima 3rd (1990–1996) Fukushima 5th (1996–2000; 2003–2005) Tohoku PR (2000–2003; 2005–2009) |
Term Start1: | 19 February 1990 |
Term End1: | 21 July 2009 |
Office2: | Member of the Fukushima Prefectural Assembly |
Term Start2: | 1975 |
Term End2: | 1990 |
Office3: | Member of the Iwaki City Assembly |
Term Start3: | 1972 |
Term End3: | 1975 |
Birth Date: | 2 November 1944 |
Birth Place: | Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan |
Death Place: | Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan |
Party: | Liberal Democratic |
Otherparty: | New Frontier |
Alma Mater: | Chuo University |
was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Iwaki, Fukushima and graduate of Chuo University, he had served in the city assembly of Iwaki since 1972 and in the assembly of Fukushima Prefecture for three terms since 1975. In 1986, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives. He ran again four years later and was elected for the first time. He died on 4 November 2018 at the age of 74 from heart failure.[1]