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Place of Birth: Sapporo, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan
About Takahiro Yokomichi
- Takahiro Yokomichi (?? ??, Yokomichi Takahiro, born January 3, 1941) is a Japanese politician who belongs to the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and was a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
- A native of Sapporo, Hokkaido and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he was elected to the first of his five terms in the House of Representatives in 1969 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party in the electoral district of his late father Setsuo.
- He left the House of Representatives and was elected to be the governor of Hokkaido.
- He served for three terms from 1983 to 1995.
- After finishing his term as governor, he left the Socialist Party, joining the DPJ.
- In 1996 he was re-elected to the House of Representatives.
- He is the leader of the most left-leaning faction in the DPJ.
- After the victory of 2009 elections, then-DPJ President Yukio Hatoyama named him as the next house speaker of the House of Representatives. In the 2012 general election Yokomichi lost his single-seat electorate but retained a seat in the Diet through the proportional representation system.
- He managed to regain his seat in the 2014 election and held it until he retired in 2017.
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