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Japanese politician (born 1938)
Toshimi Kitazawa
(
北澤 俊美
,
Kitazawa Toshimi
, born March 6, 1938)
is a previous
Japanese
defence minister
. He is a politician of the
Democratic Party of Japan
, a member of the
House of Councillors
in the
Diet
(national legislature). A native of
Nagano, Nagano
and graduate of
Waseda University
, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1992 after serving in the assembly of
Nagano Prefecture
for five terms. He had joined the
Democratic Party of Japan
in 1998. On 16 September 2009; Kitazawa was appointed the Minister of Defence by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. He was re-appointed by Prime Minister Naoto Kan in the cabinet shift, and was the Minister of Defence until 2 September 2011.
He retired in 2016, and was succeeded by
Hideya Sugio
.
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