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Place of Birth: Naze, Japan
About Takeshi Tokuda
- Takeshi Tokuda (?? ?, Tokuda Takeshi, born May 30, 1971) is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as an independent.
- A native of Yao, Osaka he attended University of California, Los Angeles and summer school at Harvard University in the United States.
- He entered Teikyo University in April 2005.
- He was elected for the first time in 2005.
- His father Torao Tokuda is also a politician, as well as head of the Tokushukai hospital group.
- In February 2013, Takeshi Tokuda resigned from his Diet post as parliamentary secretary in charge of infrastructure and transport as well as reconstruction, after tabloid Shukan Shincho ran a story alleging he had raped an intoxicated 19-year-old, and then when the victim filed a civil suit against him for damages came to an out-of-court settlement with her for ¥10 million.
- In public comments, Tokuda apologised for causing trouble but refused comment on the issue, stating that he had agreed not to discuss it.
- On February 24, 2014, he submitted his resignation from the Diet due to guilt-by-association rules of the Public Offices Election Law.
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