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Shigeyuki Goto

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Shigeyuki Goto
後藤 茂之
Official portrait, 2016
Minister of Economic Revitalization
In office
25 October 2022 – 13 September 2023
Prime MinisterFumio Kishida
Preceded byDaishiro Yamagiwa
Succeeded byYoshitaka Shindō
Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
In office
4 October 2021 – 10 August 2022
Prime MinisterFumio Kishida
Preceded byNorihisa Tamura
Succeeded byKatsunobu Katō
Member of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
16 December 2012
Preceded byKōji Yazaki
ConstituencyNagano 4th
In office
25 June 2000 – 21 July 2009
Preceded byHajime Ogawa
Succeeded byKōji Yazaki
ConstituencyNagano 4th
Personal details
Born (1955-12-09) 9 December 1955 (age 68)
Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Political partyLDP (2003–present)
Other political
affiliations
NFP (1996–1997)
DPJ (1998–2003)
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
Brown University

Shigeyuki Goto (後藤 茂之, Gotō Shigeyuki, born December 9, 1955) is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives.

A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he was selected to become Economic Revitalization Minister in October 2022 upon the cabinet resignation of Daishiro Yamagiwa.[1] Goto previously served as Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare from October 2021 to August 2022.

Career

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A native of Minato, Tokyo and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Finance in 1980. He also received a master's degree from Brown University as a bureaucrat. After he left the ministry in 1995, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives as a member of the New Frontier Party. He ran again in 2000 as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan and was elected for the first time.

References

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  1. ^ "Ex-Japan health minister Goto replaces church-linked economy chief". Kyodo News. 25 October 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
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Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare
2021–2022
Succeeded by