Chikara Sakaguchi
Chikara Sakaguchi | |
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坂口 力 | |
Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare | |
In office 6 January 2001 – 27 September 2004 | |
Prime Minister | Yoshirō Mori Junichiro Koizumi |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Hidehisa Otsuji |
Minister of Health and Welfare | |
In office 5 December 2000 – 6 January 2001 | |
Prime Minister | Yoshirō Mori |
Preceded by | Yūji Tsushima |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Minister of Labour | |
In office 5 December 2000 – 6 January 2001 | |
Prime Minister | Yoshirō Mori |
Preceded by | Yoshio Yoshikawa |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
In office 9 August 1993 – 28 April 1994 | |
Prime Minister | Morihiro Hosokawa |
Preceded by | Masakuni Murakami |
Succeeded by | Kunio Hatoyama |
Personal details | |
Born | Hakusan, Mie, Japan | April 1, 1934
Chikara Sakaguchi (坂口 力, Sakaguchi Chikara, born April 1, 1934) is a Japanese politician.[1]
He was born in Mie Prefecture and obtained an MD from Mie University. In 1976, he ran for the House of Representatives as a member of Komeitō, and won a proportional representation seat from the Tokai bloc.
Sakaguchi was Minister of Labor in the 1993-94 coalition cabinet led by Morihiro Hosokawa. After the coalition government collapsed, he was the second-ranking officer of three other political parties, New Frontier Party (1994), Shintō Heiwa (1997), and New Komeito Party (1999).
In December 2000, he was appointed Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare in the LDP-Liberal-Komeito coalition cabinet of Yoshirō Mori. He retained this position under Junichiro Koizumi until September 2004.
Sakaguchi is currently deputy director of Komeito, and is the oldest and longest-serving Komeito member of the House of Representatives.
References
- ^ Larimer, Tim (15 October 2001). "A Whole Lot at Steak". Time. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
- 1934 births
- Living people
- Politicians from Mie Prefecture
- Ministers of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan
- 20th-century Japanese physicians
- Members of the House of Representatives (Japan)
- Komeitō politicians
- New Komeito politicians
- New Frontier Party (Japan) politicians
- 20th-century Japanese politicians
- 21st-century Japanese politicians