Shigeyuki Goto

Shigeyuki Goto
Shigeyuki Goto
後藤茂之
	Official portrait, 2016
Minister of Economic Revitalization
	In office; 25 October 2022 – 13 September 2023
Prime Minister	Fumio Kishida
Preceded by	Daishiro Yamagiwa
Succeeded by	Yoshitaka Shindō
Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
	In office; 4 October 2021 – 10 August 2022
Prime Minister	Fumio Kishida
Preceded by	Norihisa Tamura
Succeeded by	Katsunobu Katō
Member of the House of Representatives
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 16 December 2012
Preceded by	Kōji Yazaki
Constituency	Nagano 4th
	In office; 25 June 2000 – 21 July 2009
Preceded by	Hajime Ogawa
Succeeded by	Kōji Yazaki
Constituency	Nagano 4th
Personal details
Born	9 December 1955 (age 69); Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Political party	LDP (2003–present)
Other political; affiliations	NFP (1996–1997); DPJ (1998–2003)
Alma mater	University of Tokyo; Brown University

Shigeyuki Goto (後藤茂之, Gotō Shigeyuki, born December 9, 1955) is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives.

Early life

Goto is a native of Minato, Tokyo and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Finance in 1980. He also received a master's degree from Brown University as a bureaucrat.

Political career

Goto left the ministry in 1995, and ran unsuccessfully for the Nagano 4th constituency seat in the House of Representatives in the 1996 election as a member of the New Frontier Party. He ran again in 2000 as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan and was elected for the first time.

Goto lost his seat to Kōji Yazaki in the 2009 general election, but reclaimed it once more in 2012, and has continued to hold it since, most recently winning reelection in 2024.

A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he was selected to become Economic Revitalization Minister in October 2022 upon the cabinet resignation of Daishiro Yamagiwa.^[1] Goto previously served as Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare from October 2021 to August 2022.

Election history

Election	Age	District	Political party	Number of votes	election results
1996 Japanese general election	40	Nagano 4th district	NFP	65,009	lost
2000 Japanese general election	44	Nagano 4th district	DPJ	78,397	winning
2003 Japanese general election	47	Nagano 4th district	LDP	70,618	winning
2005 Japanese general election	49	Nagano 4th district	LDP	87,859	winning
2009 Japanese general election	53	Nagano 4th district	LDP	63,118	lost
2012 Japanese general election	57	Nagano 4th district	LDP	68,083	winning
2014 Japanese general election	59	Nagano 4th district	LDP	63,121	winning
2017 Japanese general election	61	Nagano 4th district	LDP	68,673	winning
2021 Japanese general election	65	Nagano 4th district	LDP	86,962	winning
2024 Japanese general election	68	Nagano 4th district	LDP	75,713	winning
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References

^ "Ex-Japan health minister Goto replaces church-linked economy chief". Kyodo News. 25 October 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
^ "後藤しげゆき（ゴトウシゲユキ）｜政治家情報｜選挙ドットコム". 選挙ドットコム (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-12-05.
^ "後藤茂之 | 選挙結果（衆議院） | 国会議員白書". kokkai.sugawarataku.net. Retrieved 2024-12-05.

政治家情報〜後藤茂之〜. JANJAN ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2007-10-20.

External links

Official website in Japanese.

Political offices
Preceded by Norihisa Tamura	Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare 2021–2022	Succeeded by Katsunobu Katō

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[1] "Ex-Japan health minister Goto replaces church-linked economy chief". Kyodo News. 25 October 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.

[2] "後藤しげゆき（ゴトウシゲユキ）｜政治家情報｜選挙ドットコム". 選挙ドットコム (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-12-05.

[3] "後藤茂之 | 選挙結果（衆議院） | 国会議員白書". kokkai.sugawarataku.net. Retrieved 2024-12-05.

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