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Goshi Hosono

Politician

Goshi Hosono is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	AGoshi Hosono · Goshi Hosono · Góši Hosono · Gōshi Hosono · HOSONO Goshi · 4 more...				[sources]
Alias	Goshi Hosono · Goushi Hosono · Goŝi Hosono · Góši Hosono · Gōshi Hosono · 8 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1971-08-21				[sources]
Place of birth	Ayabe · Ayabe, Kyoto				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
Last name	Hosono				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	www.gohosono.com · facebook.com · twitter.com · www.gohosono.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1135729				[sources]
Position	Minister of the Environment · Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · Shūgiin (member, 2017-) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan				[sources]
Education	Faculty of Law, Kyoto University · Kyoto University				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-01	Last processed	2025-12-01	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Shizuoka 5th District (single-seat constituency), elected nine times

— Japanese House of Representatives Members, 2025-10-13

Japanese politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Shūgiin	2017-11-01	-
member of the House of Representatives of Japan	2021-10-31

Data sources

Japanese House of Representatives Members466

Current members of the Japanese House of Representatives (Shūgiin), the lower house of the National Diet of Japan.

Japan · Shūgiin

Every Politician57,742

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Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,812

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories371,840

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata386,686

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions516,422

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-0775f6d9-c52c-4977-8759-a483cba61052 · jp-shu-da25eeb8d84bacd02bca93f60484d0de5be76f55

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