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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
Wataru Kubo
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A Personal Chronology
| Jan. 15, 1929 | Born in Kagoshima Prefecture. |
| 1952 | Graduates from Hiroshima
University of Literature and Science. Becomes a teacher at a Kagoshima prefectural high school. |
| 1963 | Elected to the Kagoshima Prefectural Assembly (serves three terms). |
| 1974 | Elected for the first time to the House of Councillors (H.C.). Is now serving his fourth term. |
| 1979 | Appointed Chairman, H.C. Committee on Social and Labor Affairs. |
| 1986 | Appointed Chairman, H.C. Special Committee on Disasters. |
| 1988 | Appointed Vice-Chairman, Policy Making Board of the Japan Socialist Party (JSP; changed its English name to Social Democratic Party of Japan, or SDPJ, in Feb. 1991 and dropped the word Japan from its name, becoming SDP, in Jan. 1996). |
| 1990 | Appointed Chairman, H.C. Committee on Discipline. |
| 1991 | Named leader of a group of
Diet members from Rengo (Japanese Trade Union
Confederation). Appointed Secretary for Finance, SDPJ Shadow Cabinet Committee (Shadow Minister for Finance). |
| 1992 | Appointed SDPJ Diet Affairs Chairman for H.C. Members. |
| 1993 | Appointed Acting Chairman,
SDPJ Central Executive Committee. Appointed General Secretary of the SDPJ. |
| Jan. 1996 | Appointed Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister of Finance. Appointed Deputy Leader of the SDP. Attends G-7 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in Paris. |
| Apr. 1996 | Attends G-7 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in Washington, D.C. |
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