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 (age 68); 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.

Political offices
Preceded by Norihisa Tamura	Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare 2021–2022	Succeeded by Katsunobu Katō

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