Yoshihide Suga, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yoshihide Suga

Japanese politician

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1948

Place of Birth: Ogachi, Akita, Japan

Profession: politician

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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Yoshihide Suga (? ??, Suga Yoshihide, born 6 December 1948) is a Japanese politician currently serving as Chief Cabinet Secretary.
He previously served as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications in the cabinet of Shinzo Abe until August 2007. He was born in Ogachi (now Yuzawa), Akita Prefecture and obtained an LL.B.
from Hosei University in Tokyo.
He served as a secretary to Diet member Hikosaburo Okonogi for eleven years, then as secretary to the Minister of International Trade and Industry in 1984 and later as a member of the Yokohama city council. Suga was elected to the Diet of Japan in 1996.
Originally a member of the Obuchi faction, he left the faction after refusing to support Obuchi in the 1998 party elections.
He also refused to participate in the no confidence motion against Yoshiro Mori in 2000 and better relations with China and Korea as leader.Affiliated to the openly negationist organisation Nippon Kaigi, Suga has formed a team to reexamine the "background" of the Kono Statement of 1993.Suga has been supportive of aggressive measures by the Bank of Japan to counter deflation.Suga announced the name of the new imperial era, Reiwa, on April 1st, 2019.