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Seigo Kitamura

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Seigo Kitamura
北村 誠吾
Official portrait, 2014
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
25 June 2000 – 20 May 2023
Preceded byDaisuke Miyajima [ja]
Succeeded byYouzou Kaneko [ja]
ConstituencyNagasaki 4th (2000–2009; 2012–2023)
Kyushu PR (2009–2012)
Member of the Nagasaki Prefectural Assembly
In office
1987–2000
ConstituencyKitamatsuura District
Member of the Sasebo City Council
In office
1983–1986
Personal details
Born(1947-01-29)29 January 1947
Ojika, Nagasaki, Japan
Died20 May 2023(2023-05-20) (aged 76)
Tokyo, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic
Alma materWaseda University

Seigo Kitamura (北村 誠吾, Kitamura Seigo, January 29, 1947 – May 20, 2023) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Ojika, Nagasaki and graduate of Waseda University, he ran unsuccessfully for the assembly of Nagasaki Prefecture in 1982 but served in the assembly of Sasebo, Nagasaki in the following year. In 1986 he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives as an independent. After having served in the assembly of Nagasaki Prefecture for four terms since 1987, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000 as an independent in Nagasaki's 4th District. He later joined the LDP.

Kitamura served as the minister of state from September 11, 2019 to September 16, 2020.

Kitamura died in Tokyo on May 20, 2023, at the age of 76.[1]

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  1. ^ "元地方創生相の北村誠吾衆院議員が死去、76歳". 読売新聞オンライン (in Japanese). 20 May 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2023.

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House of Representatives (Japan)
Preceded by Chair, Lower House Committee on Security
2014–2016
Succeeded by
Akira Sato
House of Councillors
Preceded by Chair, Upper House Special Committee on Okinawa and Northern Problems
2010–2011
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by State Minister of Defense
2008–2009
Succeeded by