Masayoshi Yoshino | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Minister for Reconstruction |
Primeminister: | Shinzo Abe |
Term Start: | 26 April 2017 |
Term End: | 2 October 2018 |
Predecessor: | Masahiro Imamura |
Successor: | Hiromichi Watanabe |
Office1: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Constituency1: | Fukushima 5th (2000–2003; 2005–2009; 2014–2024) Tohoku PR (2003–2005; 2009–2014) |
Term Start1: | 25 June 2000 |
Term End1: | 9 October 2024 |
Predecessor1: | Goji Sakamoto |
Successor1: | Constituency abolished |
Office2: | Member of the Fukushima Prefectural Assembly |
Term Start2: | 1987 |
Term End2: | 1999 |
Birth Date: | 8 August 1948 |
Birth Place: | Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan |
Party: | Liberal Democratic |
Alma Mater: | Waseda University |
is 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 Waseda University, he was elected to the first of his three terms in the assembly of Fukushima Prefecture in 1987 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000. In 2012, he won a seat in the House of Representatives for the Chugoku region, and in 2014 returned to Fukushima which he has represented since 2014.[1]
On 26 April 2017, he became the minister responsible for disaster reconstruction in the Tohoku Region, after the previous minister, Masahiro Imamura, resigned after making insensitive remarks about the 2011 earthquake and tsunami which had hit the Tohoku region.[2]