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Takuya Tasso

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達増 拓也
Tasso Takuya (2010).JPG
Governor of Iwate Prefecture
Incumbent

Assumed office
30 April 2007
Preceded by Hiroya Masuda

Personal details
Born
(1964-06-10) 10 June 1964 (age 54)
Morioka, Iwate, Japan
Alma mater University of Tokyo

Takuya Tasso (達増 拓也, Tasso Takuya, born 10 June 1964) is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Iwate Prefecture. He is a native of Morioka and graduate of the University of Tokyo.



Biography


Tasso joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1988, receiving a master's degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University in the United States while with the ministry. In 1996, he was elected to the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) for the first time as a member of the New Frontier Party and subsequently served as a diet member for the Democratic Party of Japan. He was first elected governor of Iwate prefecture in 2007 and as of 2012 is in his second four-year term.[1]


On July 9, 2012 he announced that he would sever his ties with the DPJ and join Putting People's Lives First, the new party led by Ichiro Ozawa.[1][2]



References





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  2. ^ "Iwate governor to part with DPJ and join Ozawa's planned party". The Japan Times. Retrieved July 13, 2012.




  • 政治家情報 〜達増 拓也〜. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on May 18, 2008. Retrieved November 22, 2007. External link in |work= (help)


External links



  • Official website (in Japanese)















Political offices
Preceded by
Hiroya Masuda

Governor of Iwate
2007–

Incumbent

House of Representatives of Japan

New district

Representative for Iwate 1st district
1996–2007

Vacant
Title next held by

Takeshi Shina








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