Shigeyuki Goto

Shigeyuki Goto
Shigeyuki Goto
後藤茂之
Minister of Economic Revitalization
	In office; 25 October 2022 – 13 September 2023
Prime Minister	Fumio Kishida
Preceded by	Daishiro Yamagiwa
Succeeded by	Yoshitaka Shindō
Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
	In office; 4 October 2021 – 10 August 2022
Prime Minister	Fumio Kishida
Preceded by	Norihisa Tamura
Succeeded by	Katsunobu Katō
Member of the House of Representatives
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 25 June 2000 - 21 July 2009; 16 December 2012
Preceded by	Norihisa Tamura
Succeeded by	Katsunobu Katō
Constituency	Nagano 4th district
Personal details
Born	9 December 1955; Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic; (2003-present)
Other political; affiliations	New Frontier; (1996-1997); Democratic; (1998-2003)
Alma mater	University of Tokyo

Shigeyuki Goto (後藤茂之, Gotō Shigeyuki, born December 9, 1955) is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives.

A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he was selected to become Economic Revitalization Minister in October 2022 upon the cabinet resignation of Daishiro Yamagiwa.^[1] Goto previously served as Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare from October 2021 to August 2022.

Career

A native of Minato, Tokyo and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Finance in 1980. He also received a master's degree from Brown University as a bureaucrat. After he left the ministry in 1995, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives as a member of the New Frontier Party. He ran again in 2000 as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan and was elected for the first time.

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