1. Yuichiro Hata was a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan.
14 Facts About Yuichiro Hata
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Yuichiro Hata was the son of the late Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata.
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Yuichiro Hata was a member of the Itochu Foundation during his time as a student at Tamagawa University.
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Yuichiro Hata graduated from the university with a Bachelor of Arts in March 1993.
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Early in his career Yuichiro Hata was a secretary to his father, Prime Minister Tsutomu Yuichiro Hata, during the latter's tenure in the House of Representatives.
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Yuichiro Hata served as member of the House of Councillors in the Diet beginning with his election in 1999.
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Yuichiro Hata was affiliated with the Democratic Party of Japan, the Democratic Party for the People after the merger of the Democratic Party and Kibo no To, and finally Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan after the DPP's dissolution.
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On 4 June 2012 Yuichiro Hata was appointed to be the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.
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Yuichiro Hata was a member of the DPJ and later, the CDP, both of which are center-left parties.
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Yuichiro Hata held positions consistent with the platform of those parties.
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Yuichiro Hata was opposed to the revision of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution that prohibits Japan from going to war.
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Yuichiro Hata was a supporter of agricultural protectionism in regards to fair trade agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Yuichiro Hata died from COVID-19 in Tokyo on 27 December 2020, at age 53, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan while being transported to the University of Tokyo Hospital.
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Yuichiro Hata was the first Japanese legislator to die of the disease.