Senior Vice-Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Yoshito KAJIYA

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Name:	Yoshito KAJIYA
Date of Birth:	April 22, 1938
Place of Birth:	Kagoshima Prefecture
Education:	Kagoshima Municipal Gyokuryu High School, 1957

July 1962 - September 1965	Secretary to Mr. Keikichi TANIGUCHI, Member of the House of Councillors (HC)
April 1976	Elected to the Kagoshima Municipal Assembly, Kagoshima Prefecture (four terms in succession)
April 1987 - April 1988	Vice-Chairman of the Kagoshima Municipal Assembly
April 1991	Elected to the Kagoshima Prefectural Assembly (three terms in succession)
July 2001	Elected to the HC (19th Regular Election)
September 2004 - November 2005	Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
September 2006 - September 2007	Chairman of the HC Standing Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
July 2007	Elected to the HC (21st Regular Election)
December 2012	Senior Vice-Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries