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Place of Birth: Ōsaka, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan
About Tetsundo Iwakuni
- Tetsundo Iwakuni (?? ??, Iwakuni Tetsundo, born July 11, 1936) is a prominent Japanese politician who, until 2009, represented Democratic Party of Japan, as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). He was born in Osaka and graduated from the University of Tokyo.
- He worked at Nikko Securities from 1959 to 1977, heading its offices in London, Paris and Beirut, and then at Morgan Stanley from 1977 to 1984.
- In 1984 he became the CEO of Merrill Lynch Japan, and in 1987 was promoted to a senior executive position at Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in the US.In 1989, Iwakuni left Merrill Lynch to become mayor of Izumo, Shimane.
- After running unsuccessfully for the governorship of Tokyo in 1995, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996.
- He served as the Director-General of the International Department of the Democratic Party of Japan until 2009, when he decided to step down from politics.
- He has also served as vice president of the DPJ.
- Iwakuni now serves as Senior Adviser to GR Japan, a government relations consultancy, and teaches at several universities in Japan, Korea, and the U.S.
- In 2010 he was appointed as a policy advisor to the Liberal Democratic Party.
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