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]