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Tadashi Maeda (politician)

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Tadashi Maeda
前田 正
Official portrait, 1999
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
20 October 1996 – 2 June 2000
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byMasaaki Nakayama
ConstituencyOsaka 4th
In office
18 February 1990 – 18 June 1993
ConstituencyOsaka 2nd
Personal details
Born(1946-12-07)7 December 1946
Osaka, Japan
Died28 October 2013(2013-10-28) (aged 66)
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
Liberal Democratic
New Frontier
Parent
Alma materOsaka University

Tadashi Maeda (前田 正, Maeda Tadashi, December 7, 1946 – October 28, 2013) was a Japanese politician who served two terms in the House of Representatives.

Early life

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Born in Osaka in 1946, he was the son of House of Representatives member Jiichirō Maeda.

Education

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Maeda graduated in 1969 from the Engineering Department of Osaka University.

Career

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After serving as promotions director of the Osaka branch of the LDP, he was elected to the Diet in the 39th general election on an LDP ticket,[1] and joined the Kōmoto Faction. In the 1993 general election he failed to be reelected, but managed to be reelected on a New Frontier Party ticket in the 1996 general election. In 1998, he joined the so-called Reform Club led by Ichiro Ozawa. In 1999, he became Parliamentary Vice-Minister in the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, a post he also had in the Second Obuchi Cabinet[2] and in the First Mori Cabinet.

Death

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He died on October 28, 2013, in Osaka from heart failure.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "前田正氏が死去 元衆院議員" (in Japanese). Nihon Keizai Shimbun. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
  2. ^ "元新進党衆院議員の前田正さん死去" (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
  3. ^ "前田正氏死去(元衆院議員)" (in Japanese). Jiji Press. Archived from the original on October 30, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2013.