Hidekatsu Yoshii
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is a Japanese
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 politician
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 and member of the House of Representatives
House of Representatives of Japan
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 for Japanese Communist Party
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A native of Kyoto, Kyoto and graduate of Kyoto University
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, he was elected to the first of his three terms in the city assembly of Sakai, Osaka
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is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It has been one of the largest and most important seaports of Japan since the Medieval era.Following the February 2005 annexation of the town of Mihara, from Minamikawachi District, the city has grown further and is now the fourteenth most populous city in...

 in 1971 and then to his one term in the assembly of Osaka Prefecture
Osaka Prefecture
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 in 1983. After running unsuccessfully for the House of Councillors
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in 1986, he was elected to the house in 1988 but lost his seat in the following year. In 1990 he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time.

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