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Place of Birth: Gifu Prefecture, Japan
About Yasuhiro Sonoda
- Yasuhiro Sonoda (?? ??, Sonoda Yasuhiro, born June 9, 1967) is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan.
- A native of Amakusa District, Kumamoto, he attended Nihon University as undergraduate and graduate students and Keio University as a research student.
- He was elected for the first time in 2003 after unsuccessful runs in 1998 and 2000. Sonoda became internationally known for drinking a glass of water, collected from puddles under the reactor buildings at the radioactively polluted Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, during a press conference to prove the safety of the installed decontamination procedures.
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