Yoshito Sengoku | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Minister of Justice |
Primeminister: | Naoto Kan |
Term Start: | 22 November 2010 |
Term End: | 14 January 2011 |
Predecessor: | Minoru Yanagida |
Successor: | Satsuki Eda |
Office2: | Minister of State for the Abduction Issue |
Primeminister2: | Naoto Kan |
Term Start2: | 22 November 2010 |
Term End2: | 14 January 2011 |
Predecessor2: | Minoru Yanagida |
Successor2: | Kansei Nakano |
Office3: | Chief Cabinet Secretary |
Primeminister3: | Naoto Kan |
Term Start3: | 8 June 2010 |
Term End3: | 14 January 2011 |
Predecessor3: | Hirofumi Hirano |
Successor3: | Yukio Edano |
Office4: | Minister of State for National Strategy |
Primeminister4: | Yukio Hatoyama |
Term Start4: | 7 January 2010 |
Term End4: | 8 June 2010 |
Predecessor4: | Naoto Kan |
Successor4: | Satoshi Arai |
Office5: | Minister of State for Civil Service Reform |
Primeminister5: | Yukio Hatoyama |
Term Start5: | 16 September 2009 |
Term End5: | 8 June 2010 |
Predecessor5: | Position established |
Successor5: | Kōichirō Genba |
Office6: | Minister of State for Government Revitalisation |
Primeminister6: | Yukio Hatoyama |
Term Start6: | 16 September 2009 |
Term End6: | 10 February 2010 |
Predecessor6: | Position established |
Successor6: | Yukio Edano |
Office7: | Member of the Japanese House of Representatives |
Term Start7: | 18 February 1990 |
Term End7: | 4 December 2012 |
Predecessor7: | Constituency established |
Successor7: | Mamoru Fukuyama |
Birth Date: | 15 January 1946 |
Birth Place: | Tokushima, Japan |
Death Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
Party: | Democratic Party (1996–present) |
Otherparty: | Social Democratic Party (Before 1996) |
Alma Mater: | University of Tokyo (Incomplete) |
Website: | Official website |
was a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan.
He was born in Tokushima, Tokushima prefecture. While studying in the University of Tokyo, he passed the bar exam and therefore dropped out of the university. He was elected for the first time in 1990 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party.
Viewed as a close ally of Prime Minister Naoto Kan, the opposition Liberal Democratic Party has labeled Sengoku as the "second" Prime Minister of the Kan cabinet. Sengoku denies that he wields any extraordinary influence in the government and praised Kan as a "strong leader".[1]
In January 2011, he was ousted from his position as a top cabinet member due to swelling pressure from the opposition, namely the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito Party, to execute cabinet reform. Sengoku was replaced by Yukio Edano, who was expected to yield much influence over Kan as a protégé of Sengoku.
In March 2011, Prime Minister Naoto Kan appointed Sengoku as Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary.[2]
He lost his seat in the December 16, 2012 general election.[3]
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