Ritsuo Hosokawa

Minister of Health, Labour and WelfareIn office
17 September 2010 – 2 September 2011Prime MinisterNaoto KanPreceded byAkira NagatsumaSucceeded byYoko Komiyama Personal detailsBorn (1943-08-08) 8 August 1943 (age 80)
Agawa District, Kōchi, JapanAlma materMeiji University

Ritsuo Hosaka (細川 律夫, Hosakawa Ritsuo, born August 8, 1943) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).

Overviews

A native of Agawa District, Kōchi and graduate of Meiji University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party after unsuccessful runs in 1983 and 1986. In 1996 he participated in the formulation of the DPJ. Between 1990 and 2012, he represented either the 3rd District or the 4th District of Saitama prefecture.

References

• 政治家情報 〜細川 律夫〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2007-10-13.

External links

• Official website in Japanese.

Political offices
Preceded by Akira Nagatsuma	Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare 2010–2011	Succeeded by Yoko Komiyama
Preceded by Hideaki Ōmura Takao Watanabe	Senior Vice-Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare 2009–2010 Served alongside: Hiroyuki Nagahama	Succeeded by Yoko Komiyama Osamu Fujimura
House of Representatives (Japan)
Preceded by Hiroshi Imai	Representative for Saitama 3rd district 2000–2005 2009–present	Succeeded by Hiroshi Imai
		Incumbent
Preceded by N/A	Representative for the Northern Kantō PR block 1996–2000 2005–2009	Succeeded by N/A
Preceded by Eiji Nonaka Yatarō Mitsubayashi Eisuke Yamada Masahisa Aoki	Representative for Saitama 4th district (multi-member) 1990–1996 Served alongside: Yuriko Takeyama, Eisuke Yamada, Yatarō Mitsubayashi, Masahisa Aoki	District eliminated