Tarō Asō

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Tarō Asō (麻生 太郎 Asō Tarō born 20 September 1940) is a Japanese politician the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. Asō was the 92nd Prime Minister of Japan serving from September 2008 to September 2009 and was defeated in the August 2009 election.He has served in the House of Representatives since 1979. He was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2007 and was Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) briefly in 2007 and in 2008.

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active years end date

1997-09-11, 2001-04-26, 2005-10-31, 2007-08-27, 2009-09-16

active years start date

1996-11-07, 2001-01-23, 2003-09-22, 2005-10-31, 2008-09-24, 2012-12-26

alma mater

Stanford University, London School of Economics, Gakushuin University

birth date

1940-09-20

birth place

Japan, Iizuka Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Empire of Japan

election majority

146712

monarch

Akihito

office

Member of the House of Representatives, Minister of Finance, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister of Japan, Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, Director General of the Economic Planning Agency, Minister for Economic Policy

order in office

Deputy Prime Minister of Japan

party

Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

prime minister

Shinzō Abe, Junichiro Koizumi, Ryutaro Hashimoto, Yoshirō Mori

region

Fukuoka 8th district

religion

Catholic Church

successor

Koji Omi, Yukio Hatoyama, Nobutaka Machimura, Heizō Takenaka