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Tetsuo Kondo
Office:Minister of Labour
Primeminister:Kiichi Miyazawa
Term Start:1991
Term End:1992
Predecessor:Sadatoshi Ozato
Office1:Head of the Economic Planning Agency
Primeminister1:Yasuhiro Nakasone
Term Start1:1986
Term End1:1987
Successor1:Eiichi Nakao
Office2:Member of the House of Representatives
Term Start2:23 September 1972
Term End2:27 September 1996
Constituency2:Yamagata 1st district
Party:Liberal Democratic
Birth Date:11 August 1929
Birth Place:Nan'yō, Yamagata, Yamagata, Japan
Death Place:Tokyo, Japan
Children:Yōsuke Kondō
Alma Mater:Hitotsubashi University

was a Japanese politician who served as Japan's Minister of Labor from 1991 until 1992.

Kondo, who was from Yamagata Prefecture, began his career as an employee of the Japanese Ministry of Finance. Kondo, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, served as a member of the House of Representatives of Japan for nine terms from 1972 until 1996. He also served as chief of the now defunct Economic Planning Agency during his career as a lawmaker.

Kondo was appointed as labor minister within the administration of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa from 1991 until 1992. He retired from active politics after a failed re-election bid in the 1996 general election.

Tetsuo Kondo died in Tokyo of pancreatic cancer on March 4, 2010, at the age of 80.

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