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Palauan politician
Shiro Kyota
is a
Palauan
politician and a former speaker of the
House of Delegates of Palau
[1]
from January 1989 to November 1992.
He was elected to Palau Legislature in 1960s
[2]
and 1970s.
[3]
He represented the State of
Ngaremlengui
.
[4]
He run for a seat in the
Senate of Palau
in
1980
, but lost.
[5]
He became finance officer for the Palau government.
[1]
He won a seat in the
House of Delegates of Palau
in 1980s. He represented the state of
Ngaremlengui
. He was vice speaker of
House of Delegates of Palau
by 1985. He was elected speaker in 1989 and served until his retirement.
[1]
He was succeeded as speaker by
Surangel S. Whipps
in January 1993.
[6]
Kyota is of half-Japanese heritage,
[1]
being the son of a Palau-based Japanese trader and his Palauan wife.
[7]
He is the father of
Hersey Kyota
.
Bibliography
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- Deimel, Claus,
Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Ethnographischen Sammlungen Sachsen. Band 43
, LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Munster, 2007,
ISBN
3-8258-1484-X
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