
Served as Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary and President of the Senate, and was elected to the Senate for 6 consecutive terms
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Yamazaki Masaaki was born in Ono City, Fukui Prefecture. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Nihon University. He was first elected as a member of the Fukui Prefecture Assembly and was elected to the Senate for the first time in 1992 and served for 6 consecutive terms. He served as Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary during the tenure of Junichiro Koizumi and served as Senate President from 2013 to 2016. He belongs to the old Abe faction.
Masaaki Yamazaki, a member of the Senate of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, was the oldest serving senator. He passed away in the early morning of the 13th at the age of 84. He was born in Fukui Prefecture and has served as Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, Senate President and other important positions. He has served as a senator for 6 consecutive terms.
Fukui TV and TV Asahi reported that Yamazaki was born in Ono City, Fukui Prefecture. After graduating from the Faculty of Law of Nihon University, he ran for the Fukui Prefecture Assembly and was elected. Then he was elected to the Senate for the first time in 1992 and has been elected to the Senate continuously. He is currently serving his 6th term.
He served as Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary under former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and served as Senate President from 2013 to 2016. During his lifetime, he belonged to the old Abe faction. During the political donation scandal of the Liberal Democratic Party (commonly known as the small bank incident), he admitted at the National Assembly's Political Ethics Review Committee that he had not truthfully declared a political donation of 40,000 yen.
When Japan's ruling and opposition parties were in a stalemate over bills related to the deputy capital in July this year, Yamazaki was absent from the plenary meeting, causing outsiders to worry about his physical condition.
Japan's TBS TV station reported that after Takaichi Sanae learned of Yamazaki's passing, he posted a message on the social platform
Yamazaki's farewell ceremony will be held on the 17th of this month.
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