Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety
Minister of State for the Corporation in support of Compensation for Nuclear Damage
Minister for Power Saving Promotion
Minister for the Restoration from and Prevention of Nuclear Accident

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Goshi HOSONO

Date of Birth: 21 August 1971
Place of Birth: Omi-Hachiman City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Political Party: Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)
Member of the House of Representatives

Background:
2011Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety
Minister of State for the Corporation in support of Compensation for Nuclear Damage
Minister for Power Saving Promotion
Minister for the Restoration from and Prevention of Nuclear Accident
2011Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, covering social security and taxation reform and parliamentary issues (since March, covering the TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident).
2009Re-elected (4th term: Shizuoka-5 constituency). Appointed as DPJ's Deputy Secretary General (later Acting Secretary General), Chairman of DPJ's Organization Committee and Corporate Issues Committee.
2005Re-elected (3rd term: Shizuoka-5 constituency). Acted as Director of the DPJ Executives Office.
2003Re-elected (2nd term: Shizuoka-5 constituency)
2000Elected as a DPJ's Member of the House of Representatives (1st term: Shizuoka-7 constituency)
1995Sanwa Research and Consulting (currently Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting)
1995BA in Faculty of Law, University of Kyoto