Shigeyuki Goto | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Minister of Economic Revitalization |
Primeminister: | Fumio Kishida |
Term Start: | 25 October 2022 |
Term End: | 13 September 2023 |
Predecessor: | Daishiro Yamagiwa |
Successor: | Yoshitaka Shindō |
Office2: | Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare |
Primeminister2: | Fumio Kishida |
Term Start2: | 4 October 2021 |
Term End2: | 10 August 2022 |
Predecessor2: | Norihisa Tamura |
Successor2: | Katsunobu Katō |
Office3: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Constituency3: | Nagano 4th district |
Term Start3: | 25 June 2000 - 21 July 2009 16 December 2012 |
Predecessor3: | Norihisa Tamura |
Successor3: | Katsunobu Katō |
Birth Date: | 9 December 1955 |
Birth Place: | Minato, Tokyo, Japan |
Party: | Liberal Democratic |
Otherparty: | New Frontier Democratic |
Alma Mater: | University of Tokyo |
is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives.
A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he was selected to become Economic Revitalization Minister in October 2022 upon the cabinet resignation of Daishiro Yamagiwa.[1] Goto previously served as Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare from October 2021 to August 2022.
A native of Minato, Tokyo and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Finance in 1980. He also received a master's degree from Brown University as a bureaucrat. After he left the ministry in 1995, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives as a member of the New Frontier Party. He ran again in 2000 as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan and was elected for the first time.