Zenjiro Kaneko
Japanese politician
Zenjiro Kaneko (金子 善次郎, Kaneko Zenjirō; born 24 September 1943) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Yamagata Prefecture and graduate of Hitotsubashi University, he worked at the Ministry of Home Affairs. He was elected for the first time in 2000 as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) but lost his seat three years later after defecting from the DPJ to join the second incarnation of the New Conservative Party.
He was re-elected in 2005 as a representative for the LDP.
References
政治家情報 〜金子 善次郎〜. senkyo.janjan.jp (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 20 October 2007.
External links
Official website Archived 2007-10-25 at the Wayback Machine in Japanese.
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