Satsuki Eda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Satsuki Eda

Japanese politician

Date of Birth: 22-May-1941

Place of Birth: Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Satsuki Eda

  • Satsuki Eda (?? ??, Eda Satsuki, born 22 May 1941 in Okayama City) is the first opposition member to serve as the President of the House of Councillors in Japan.
  • Eda had served for three terms in the House of Councillors before his election as President on 7 August 2007, after the success of the Democratic Party in the July 2007 election for the Japanese House of Councillors.
  • He had earlier served four terms in the House of Representatives of Japan.
  • Eda was also the head of the Science and Technology Agency.Eda graduated the University of Tokyo having passed the Japanese bar examination while studying in its law faculty.
  • He elected to serve as a judge while undergoing training at the Legal Research and Training Institute, and worked as an assistant judge in Tokyo, Chiba and Yokohama.
  • In 1969, he won a government scholarship to attend Linacre College, Oxford (together with then-Finance Ministry bureaucrat Haruhiko Kuroda, who went on to head the Bank of Japan).Eda's father, Socialist Democratic Federation co-founder Saburo Eda, died unexpectedly in May 1977, on the eve of a Japanese House of Councillors election in July.
  • Eda was quickly enlisted as a SDF at-large candidate to take his father's place, and won a seat.
  • He served until July 1983, when he declined to run in the House of Councillors election that year and instead stood in the Japanese general election in December, where he won a seat representing the Okayama 1st District.
  • He held this seat until 1996, when he resigned to unsuccessfully run for Governor of Okayama Prefecture.
  • From 1985 to 1994 he was the president of the Socialist Democratic Federation. Eda returned to the House of Councillors in the 1998 election as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan.
  • He served in the upper house until 2016, when he retired from politics at the age of 74.

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