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Takuya Tasso
Takuya Tasso
達増拓也
	Tasso in 2010
Governor of Iwate Prefecture
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 30 April 2007
Preceded by	Hiroya Masuda
Member of the House of Representatives ; for Iwate 1st district
	In office; 21 October 1996 – 22 March 2007
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Takeshi Shina
Personal details
Born	10 June 1964 (age 60); Morioka, Iwate, Japan
Political party	Independent
Other political; affiliations	NFP (1996–1998); DPJ (1998–2012); PLF (2012–2012)
Alma mater	University of Tokyo

Takuya Tasso (達増拓也, Tasso Takuya, born 10 June 1964) is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Iwate Prefecture. He is a native of Morioka and graduate of the University of Tokyo.

Biography

Tasso joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1988, receiving a master's degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University in the United States while with the ministry. In 1996, he was elected to the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) for the first time as a member of the New Frontier Party and subsequently served as a diet member for the Democratic Party of Japan. He was first elected governor of Iwate prefecture in 2007 and as of 2012 is in his second four-year term.^[1]

On July 9, 2012, he announced that he would sever his ties with the DPJ and join Putting People's Lives First, the new party led by Ichiro Ozawa.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Iwate gov. to part with DPJ, join Ozawa party". Yomiuri Shimbun. July 10, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2012.
^ "Iwate governor to part with DPJ and join Ozawa's planned party". Japan Times. Retrieved July 13, 2012.

政治家情報〜達増拓也〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on May 18, 2008. Retrieved November 22, 2007. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

External links

Official website (in Japanese)

Political offices
Preceded by Hiroya Masuda	Governor of Iwate 2007–	Incumbent
House of Representatives (Japan)
New district	Representative for Iwate 1st district 1996–2007	Vacant Title next held by Takeshi Shina

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[yomiuri-1] "Iwate gov. to part with DPJ, join Ozawa party". Yomiuri Shimbun. July 10, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2012.

[japantimes-2] "Iwate governor to part with DPJ and join Ozawa's planned party". Japan Times. Retrieved July 13, 2012.

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