Kozo Yamamoto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Kozo Yamamoto

Japanese politician

Date of Birth: 08-Aug-1948

Place of Birth: Moji-ku, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Profession: politician, bureaucrat

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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About Kozo Yamamoto

  • Kozo Yamamoto (?? ??, Yamamoto Kozo, born August 8, 1948) is a former Ministry of Finance official, Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature), and is currently State Minister in charge of: Regional Revitalization; Regulatory Reform; Administrative Reform; City, People, Job-Creation; and Civil Service Reform.
  • Previous posts include Vice Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry (in the 2006 cabinet of Shinzo Abe), Chairman of the Judicial Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, Chairman of the Special Commission on Consumer Issues, and Chairman of the Special Commission on Regional Revitalization. He is known to be one of the main fathers of Abenomics.A native of Yukuhashi, Fukuoka, Yamamoto attended the University of Tokyo and received his MBA from Cornell University in the United States.
  • He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993 after an unsuccessful run in 1990. Tatsuo Murayama, Yamamoto's father in law, was an LDP member of the House of Representatives who served as Minister of Finance and Minister of Health and Welfare.
  • His uncle, Momotaro Yanagida, was mayor of the City of Moji (Fukuoka Prefecture) and a member of the House of Representatives.

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