Takuya Tasso
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Biography
Tasso joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1988, receiving a master's degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University in the United States while with the ministry. In 1996, he was elected to the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) for the first time as a member of the New Frontier Party and subsequently served as a diet member for the Democratic Party of Japan. He was first elected governor of Iwate prefecture in 2007 and as of 2012 is in his second four-year term.[1]
On July 9, 2012, he announced that he would sever his ties with the DPJ and join Putting People's Lives First, the new party led by Ichiro Ozawa.[1][2]
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- Living people
- People from Morioka, Iwate
- University of Tokyo alumni
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- New Frontier Party (Japan) politicians
- Governors of Iwate Prefecture
- Politicians from Iwate Prefecture
- Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 1996–2000
- Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2000–2003
- Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2003–2005
- Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2005–2009