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Koichi Yamamoto

Politician

Koichi Yamamoto 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	Koichi Yamamoto · Kōichi Yamamoto · YAMAMOTO Koichi · Коити Ямамото · كويتشي ياماموتو · 2 more...				[sources]
Alias	Koichi Yamamoto · Kouichi Yamamoto · Kōichi Yamamoto · Ямамото, Коити · كويتشي ياماموتو · 6 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1947-09-04				[sources]
Place of birth	Uwajima				[sources]
Death date	2023-10-31				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Kōichi				[sources]
Last name	Yamamoto				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	www.netwave.or.jp · facebook.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q6426244				[sources]
Position	Minister of the Environment (2016-2017) · Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · Shūgiin (member, 2017-) · member of the Ehime Prefectural Assembly (1991-1993) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan (1993-2021)				[sources]
Education	Keio University				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-18	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Japanese politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Shūgiin	-	-
member of the House of Representatives of Japan	1993-07-18	2021-10-14

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,660

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,582

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata333,668

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,214

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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