Shigeyuki Goto
{{Short description|Japanese politician (born 1955)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Shigeyuki Goto
|native_name = {{nobold|後藤 茂之}}
|native_name_lang = ja
|image = Shigeyuki Gotō 20211004.jpg
|caption = Official portrait, 2016
|office = Minister of Economic Revitalization
|primeminister = Fumio Kishida
|term_start = 25 October 2022
|term_end = 13 September 2023
|predecessor = Daishiro Yamagiwa
|successor = Yoshitaka Shindō
|office2 = Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
|primeminister2 = Fumio Kishida
|term_start2 = 4 October 2021
|term_end2 = 10 August 2022
|predecessor2 = Norihisa Tamura
|successor2 = Katsunobu Katō
|office3 = Member of the House of Representatives
|constituency3 = Nagano 4th
|term_start3 = 16 December 2012
|term_end3 =
|predecessor3 = Kōji Yazaki
|successor3 =
|constituency4 = Nagano 4th
|term_start4 = 25 June 2000
|term_end4 = 21 July 2009
|predecessor4 = Hajime Ogawa
|successor4 = Kōji Yazaki
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|12|9|df=y}}
|birth_place = Minato, Tokyo, Japan
|death_date =
|death_place =
|party = LDP (2003–present)
|otherparty = NFP (1996–1997)
DPJ (1998–2003)
|alma_mater = University of Tokyo
Brown University
|website =
}}
{{Nihongo|Shigeyuki Goto|後藤 茂之|Gotō Shigeyuki|born December 9, 1955}} is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives.
Early life
Goto is a native of Minato, Tokyo and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Finance in 1980. He also received a master's degree from Brown University as a bureaucrat.
Political career
Goto left the ministry in 1995, and ran unsuccessfully for the Nagano 4th constituency seat in the House of Representatives in the 1996 election as a member of the New Frontier Party. He ran again in 2000 as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan and was elected for the first time.
Goto lost his seat to Kōji Yazaki in the 2009 general election, but reclaimed it once more in 2012, and has continued to hold it since, most recently winning reelection in 2024.
A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he was selected to become Economic Revitalization Minister in October 2022 upon the cabinet resignation of Daishiro Yamagiwa.{{cite web |url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/10/f203199804e7-breaking-news-ex-health-minister-goto-likely-to-become-japan-economy-minister.html|title=Ex-Japan health minister Goto replaces church-linked economy chief|date=25 October 2022|publisher=Kyodo News|access-date=25 October 2022}} Goto previously served as Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare from October 2021 to August 2022.
Election history
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! Election ! Age ! District ! Political party ! Number of votes ! election results |
| style="background:white;" |1996 Japanese general election
| style="background:white;" |40 | style="background:white;" |Nagano 4th district | style="background:white;" |NFP | style="background:white;" |65,009 | style="background:white;" |lost |
| style="background:Pink;" |2000 Japanese general election
| style="background:Pink;" |44 | style="background:Pink;" |Nagano 4th district | style="background:Pink;" |DPJ | style="background:Pink;" |78,397 | style="background:Pink;" |winning |
| style="background:Pink;" |2003 Japanese general election
| style="background:Pink;" |47 | style="background:Pink;" |Nagano 4th district | style="background:Pink;" |LDP | style="background:Pink;" |70,618 | style="background:Pink;" |winning |
| style="background:Pink;" |2005 Japanese general election
| style="background:Pink;" |49 | style="background:Pink;" |Nagano 4th district | style="background:Pink;" |LDP | style="background:Pink;" |87,859 | style="background:Pink;" |winning |
| style="background:white;" |2009 Japanese general election
| style="background:white;" |53 | style="background:white;" |Nagano 4th district | style="background:white;" |LDP | style="background:white;" |63,118 | style="background:white;" |lost |
| style="background:Pink;" |2012 Japanese general election
| style="background:Pink;" |57 | style="background:Pink;" |Nagano 4th district | style="background:Pink;" |LDP | style="background:Pink;" |68,083 | style="background:Pink;" |winning |
| style="background:Pink;" |2014 Japanese general election
| style="background:Pink;" |59 | style="background:Pink;" |Nagano 4th district | style="background:Pink;" |LDP | style="background:Pink;" |63,121 | style="background:Pink;" |winning |
| style="background:Pink;" |2017 Japanese general election
| style="background:Pink;" |61 | style="background:Pink;" |Nagano 4th district | style="background:Pink;" |LDP | style="background:Pink;" |68,673 | style="background:Pink;" |winning |
| style="background:Pink;" |2021 Japanese general election
| style="background:Pink;" |65 | style="background:Pink;" |Nagano 4th district | style="background:Pink;" |LDP | style="background:Pink;" |86,962 | style="background:Pink;" |winning |
| style="background:Pink;" |2024 Japanese general election
| style="background:Pink;" | 68 | style="background:Pink;" |Nagano 4th district | style="background:Pink;" |LDP | style="background:Pink;" |75,713 | style="background:Pink;" |winning |
| colspan="6" |{{Cite web |title=後藤しげゆき（ゴトウシゲユキ）｜政治家情報｜選挙ドットコム |url=https://go2senkyo.com/seijika/121979 |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=選挙ドットコム |language=ja}}{{Cite web |title=後藤茂之 {{!}} 選挙結果（衆議院） {{!}} 国会議員白書 |url=https://kokkai.sugawarataku.net/giin/err02368.html |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=kokkai.sugawarataku.net}} |
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References
{{Reflist}}
- {{cite news |url=http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/diet/profile/0000/00000147.html |script-title=ja:政治家情報 〜後藤 茂之〜 |script-newspaper=ja:ザ･選挙 |newspaper=JANJAN |accessdate=2007-10-20 |language=ja}}
External links
- [http://www.510.to/ Official website] in Japanese.
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Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2005–2009
Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2014–2017
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