is a Japanese politician.
Koji Sato | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Term Start: | 22 October 2017 |
Predecessor: | Shizuka Kamei |
Constituency: | Hiroshima 6th district |
Term Start1: | 25 June 2000 |
Term End1: | 8 August 2005 |
Constituency1: | Chugoku PR block |
Office2: | Member of the House of Councillors |
Term Start2: | 29 July 2007 |
Term End2: | 28 July 2013 |
Constituency2: | Hiroshima at-large district |
Birth Date: | 28 July 1959 |
Birth Place: | Mukaishima, Mitsugi District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan |
Party: | CDP |
Otherparty: | New Frontier Liberal Democratic Tomorrow Liberal Kibō no Tō Independent |
Alma Mater: | Keio University |
He is a politician of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Mitsugi District, Hiroshima and graduate of Keio University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000 as a member of Ichirō Ozawa's Liberal Party after running unsuccessfully in 1996 as a member of the New Frontier Party. After the Liberal Party merged with the DPJ, he won the 2003 re-election but lost the 2005 re-election. In 2007, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time.