Tetsuzo Fuyushiba Explained

Tetsuzo Fuyushiba
Native Name Lang:ja
Office:Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Primeminister:Shinzo Abe
Yasuo Fukuda
Term Start:27 September 2004
Term End:26 September 2006
Predecessor:Kazuo Kitagawa
Successor:Sadakazu Tanigaki
Office2:Member of the House of Representatives
Term Start2:8 July 1986
Term End2:21 July 2009
Predecessor2:Multi-member district
Successor2:Yasuo Tanaka
Constituency2:Hyōgo 2nd (1986–1996)
Hyōgo 8th (1996–2009)
Birth Date:29 June 1936
Birth Place:Shenyang, Manchukuo
Death Place:Amagasaki, Hyōgo, Japan
Party:Komeito
Otherparty:New Frontier
Alma Mater:Kansai University

was a Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). He served as Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport as well as Minister of State for Tourism Promotion in Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's Cabinet.[1]

Fuyushiba was born in Shenyang (which was then known as Hōten) in the Japanese-occupied territory of Manchukuo, in what is now northeastern China. He graduated from Kansai University in 1960 before working as a lawyer.[1] He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1986.[2]

Fuyushiba died on 5 December 2011, aged 75, of acute pneumonia at a hospital in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/news/20111205-OYT1T01270.htm . ja:公明元幹事長、冬柴鉄三氏死去…自公政権で活躍 . Yomiuri Online. The Yomiuri Shimbun. Japanese. 2011-12-06. 2011-12-06.
  2. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/diet/profile/0000/00000218.html . ja:政治家情報 〜冬柴 鉄三〜 . ザ・選挙] . . 2007-10-13 . Japanese . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070905131516/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/diet/profile/0000/00000218.html . 2007-09-05 .