Goji Sakamoto Explained

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]

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  1. Web site: 元自民衆院議員の坂本剛二氏死去:時事ドットコム . 時事ドットコム . ja-JP . 2018-11-06 . 5 November 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181105160505/https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2018110501017&g=pol . dead .