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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