Koichi Kato (politician, born 1939)

Koichi Kato
Koichi Kato
加藤紘一
	Kato in 1985
Chief Cabinet Secretary
	In office; 5 November 1991 – 12 December 1992
Prime Minister	Kiichi Miyazawa
Preceded by	Misoji Sakamoto
Succeeded by	Yōhei Kōno
Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency
	In office; 1 November 1984 – 22 July 1986
Prime Minister	Yasuhiro Nakasone
Preceded by	Kurihara Yoshiyuki
Succeeded by	Kurihara Yoshiyuki
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary; (Political affairs)
	In office; 8 December 1978 – 17 July 1980
Prime Minister	Masayoshi Ōhira
Preceded by	Yoshirō Mori
Succeeded by	Riki Kawara
Member of the House of Representatives
	In office; 10 November 2003 – 16 November 2012
Preceded by	Riichiro Chikaoka
Succeeded by	Juichi Abe
Constituency	Yamagata 3rd
	In office; 10 December 1972 – 9 April 2002
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Jun Saito
Constituency	Yamagata 2nd (1972–1996); Yamagata 4th (1996–2002)
Personal details
Born	17 June 1939; Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan
Died	9 September 2016 (aged 77); Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Children	3 (including Ayuko)
Alma mater	University of Tokyo; Harvard University

Koichi Kato (加藤紘一, Katō Kōichi, 17 June 1939 – 9 September 2016) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who held a seat in the House of Representatives in the National Diet for 13 terms between 1972 and 2012.^[1] Kato was elected to several districts in Yamagata Prefecture and served as the Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency from 1984 to 1986 and Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1991 to 1992. Kato was a leading member of the Kōchikai faction of the LDP aligned with Prime Ministers Masayoshi Ōhira, Zenkō Suzuki, and Kiichi Miyazawa. Kato lost his seat at the December 2012 general election, and his daughter Ayuko Kato was elected to the seat at the 2014 general election.

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