Taku Yamamoto

Taku Yamamoto (山本 拓, Yamamoto Taku, born 1952) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Sabae, Fukui and graduate of Hosei University, he was elected to the first of his two terms in the assembly of Fukui Prefecture in 1983 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990. After losing his seat in 1996, he ran unsuccessfully for the governorship of Fukui Prefecture in 1999. He was re-elected to the House of Representatives in 2003.

He is married to Representative Sanae Takaichi.

References

• 政治家情報 〜山本 拓〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2007-12-03. Retrieved 2007-10-16. External link in |work= (help)

External links

• Official website in Japanese.

House of Representatives of Japan
Preceded by Toshio Kojima	Chair, Lower House Special Committee on North Korean Abductions and Other Issues 2007–2008	Succeeded by Takuji Yanagimoto
Preceded by Yuji Yamamoto	Chair, Lower House Committee on Discipline 2012	Succeeded by Shoichi Kondo
Preceded by Okiharu Yasuoka	Chair, Lower House Special Committee on North Korean Abductions and Other Issues 2012–2014	Succeeded by Katsuei Hirasawa
Preceded by Okiharu Yasuoka	Chair, Lower House Special Committee on Political Ethics and Election Law 2014–2016	Succeeded by Koichi Yamamoto
Political offices
Preceded by Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi, Issui Miura	Senior Vice Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries 2006–2007 Served alongside: Masayuki Kunii	Succeeded by Masahiro Imamura, Hiromi Iwanaga