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Tatsuo Kawabata
川端 達夫
June 6, 2012
Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan
In office 24 December 2014 – 28 September 2017
Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe
Preceded by
Hirotaka Akamatsu
Succeeded by
Hirotaka Akamatsu
Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
In office 2 September 2011 – 1 October 2012
Prime Minister
Yoshihiko Noda
Preceded by
Yoshihiro Katayama
Succeeded by
Shinji Tarutoko
Personal details
Born
(1945-01-24) 24 January 1945 (age 79) Gamō, Shiga, Japan
Political party
Democratic Party
Alma mater
Kyoto University
Tatsuo Kawabata (川端 達夫, Kawabata Tatsuo, born January 24, 1945) is a Japanese politician from the Democratic Party, and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) from 1986 to 2017. A native of Ōmihachiman, Shiga, he attended Kyoto University and received a master's degree from it. His elder brother is former mayor of Omihachiman Gohei Kawabata. In September 2011 he was appointed as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.[1] He was relieved from the post on 1 October 2012. In September 2017, Kawabata announced that he would not run in the 2017 general election and would retire from politics.
^Japan Times, "Cabinet Profiles: Noda Cabinet", 3 September 2011, p. 3.
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