Satsuki Eda

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Satsuki Eda

| native_name = {{nobold|江田五月}}

| native_name_lang = ja

| image = Satsuki Eda MOJ (cropped).jpg

| caption = Official portrait, 2010

| office = Minister of the Environment

| primeminister = Naoto Kan

| term_start = 27 June 2011

| term_end = 2 September 2011

| predecessor = Ryu Matsumoto

| successor = Goshi Hosono

| office1 = Minister of Justice

| primeminister1 = Naoto Kan

| term_start1 = 14 January 2011

| term_end1 = 2 September 2011

| predecessor1 = Yoshito Sengoku

| successor1 = Hideo Hiraoka

| office2 = President of the House of Councillors

| monarch2 = Akihito

| deputy2 = Akiko Santō

| term_start2 = 28 July 2007

| term_end2 = 25 July 2010

| predecessor2 = Chikage Oogi

| successor2 = Takeo Nishioka

| office3 = Minister of Science and Technology

| primeminister3 = Morihiro Hosokawa

| term_start3 = 9 August 1993

| term_end3 = 28 April 1994

| predecessor3 = Shōichi Watanabe

| successor3 = Mikio Ōmi

| office4 = Member of the House of Councillors

| constituency4 = Okayama at-large

| term_start4 = 26 July 1998

| term_end4 = 25 July 2016

| predecessor4 = Norifumi Kato

| successor4 = Kimi Onoda

| constituency5 = National district

| term_start5 = 10 July 1977

| term_end5 = 10 July 1983

| office6 = Member of the House of Representatives

| constituency6 = Okayama 1st

| term_start6 = 19 December 1983

| term_end6 = 27 September 1996

| predecessor6 = Multi-member district

| successor6 = Constituency abolished

| birth_date = {{birth date|1941|5|22|df=y}}

| birth_place = Okayama, Japan

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|7|28|1941|5|22|df=y}}

| death_place = Okayama, Japan

| party = CDP (2017–2021)

| otherparty = SDF (before 1994)
JNP (1994)
NFP (1994–1996)
Independent (1996–1998)
DPJ (1998–2016)
DP (2016–2017)

}}

{{nihongo|Satsuki Eda|江田五月|Eda Satsuki|extra=22 May 1941 – 28 July 2021[http://www.dpj.or.jp/english/member/?detail_34=1 Profile at Democratic Party website]. in Okayama City{{cite web|url=http://www.eda-jp.com/profile.html |title=江田五月プロフィール |publisher=Eda-jp.com |date= |accessdate=6 December 2012}}}} was a Japanese politician who was the first opposition member to serve as the President of the House of Councillors from 2007 to 2010. Eda had served for three terms in the House of Councillors before his election as president on 7 August 2007, after the success of the Democratic Party in the July 2007 election for the Japanese House of Councillors. He had earlier served four terms in the House of Representatives from 1983 to 1996. Eda was also the head of the Science and Technology Agency.Chisaki Watanabe, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/06/AR2007080601697.html "Opposition to Lead Japan's Upper House"], AP via Washington Post, 6 August 2007.

Biography

Eda graduated the University of Tokyo having passed the Japanese bar examination while studying in its law faculty. He elected to serve as a judge while undergoing training at the Legal Research and Training Institute, and worked as an assistant judge in Tokyo, Chiba and Yokohama. In 1969, he won a government scholarship to attend Linacre College, Oxford (together with then-Finance Ministry bureaucrat Haruhiko Kuroda, who went on to head the Bank of Japan).

Eda's father, Socialist Democratic Federation co-founder Saburō Eda, died unexpectedly in May 1977, on the eve of a Japanese House of Councillors election in July. Eda was quickly enlisted as a SDF at-large candidate to take his father's place, and won a seat. He served until July 1983, when he declined to run in the House of Councillors election that year and instead stood in the Japanese general election in December, where he won a seat representing the Okayama 1st District. He held this seat until 1996, when he resigned to unsuccessfully run for Governor of Okayama Prefecture. From 1985 to 1994 he was the president of the Socialist Democratic Federation.

Eda returned to the House of Councillors in the 1998 election as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. He served in the upper house until 2016, when he retired from politics at the age of 74.{{Cite news|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/09/national/politics-diplomacy/dpj-lawmaker-eda-to-retire-from-politics-in-summer|title=DPJ lawmaker Eda to retire from politics in summer|date=9 January 2016|work=The Japan Times Online|access-date=17 April 2017|language=en-US|issn=0447-5763}} He died of pneumonia on 28 July 2021 at the age of 80.{{Cite news|date=28 July 2021|title=Satsuki Eda, former Japanese upper house president, dies at 80|language=en|work=Mainichi Daily News|url=https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210728/p2g/00m/0na/046000c|access-date=28 July 2021}}