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Yosuke Suzuki ( 鈴木 庸介, born 21 November 1975) is a Japanese politician. He is a member of the House of Representatives belonging to the Constitutional Democratic Party (1st term).[1]
Born in Kitaotsuka, Toshima-ku, Tokyo. He graduated from Nishisugamo Elementary School in Toshima Ward. While he was a student at Rikkyo University's Faculty of Economics, he was the captain of the wrestling club. After graduating from college, he joined NHK as a reporter. Suzuki acquired postgraduate degrees at Columbia University and the London School of Economics.[2]
He was appointed as the head of the Democratic Party of Japan's 10th district of Tokyo in December 2015.[3][4] In October 2016, due to the resignation of Yuriko Koike from the House of Representatives in order to run as the Governor of Tokyo, Suzuki ran for the Democratic Party in the 10th district of Tokyo for the House of Representatives, but was defeated by the Liberal Democratic Party's member Masaru Wakasa.
On September 28, 2017, the Democratic Party decided to join the Party of Hope led by Koike without holding an official candidate for the 48th House of Representatives general election. On October 2, when Yukio Edano announced his intention to launch a new party, the Constitutional Democratic Party.[5] Suzuki held a press conference with Akihiro Matsuo, Harumi Yoshida and others, who are the heads of the Democratic Party branch and expressed his intention to run for the Constitutional Democratic Party.[6]
In the 49th House of Representatives general election in October 2021, he ran for the Constitutional Democratic Party as candidate from the 10th district of Tokyo and was elected.[7][8] In the representative election (held on November 30) following the resignation of Yukio Edano, he was named as a nominee for Junya Ogawa.[9] He represented as member of the Japanese Diet delegation at the OECD meeting on March 17 and 18, 2022[10]
On July 26, 2022, the Constitutional Democratic Party warned Suzuki, who entered Ukraine, where an evacuation advisory was issued, in the name of the secretary-general. He decided to suspend party positions such as the assistant chairman of the Policy Research Council for one month.[11]
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