Zenjiro Kaneko

Zenjiro Kaneko
金子 善次郎
Official portrait, 2008
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
11 September 2005 – 21 July 2009
ConstituencyNorthern Kanto PR
In office
25 June 2000 – 10 October 2003
ConstituencyNorthern Kanto PR
Personal details
Born (1943-09-24) 24 September 1943
PartyLiberal Democratic
Other political
affiliations
NFP (1996–1998)
DPJ (1998–2002)
NCP (2002–2003)
Alma materHitotsubashi University
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Zenjiro Kaneko (金子 善次郎, Kaneko Zenjirō; born September 24, 1943) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Yamagata Prefecture and graduate of Hitotsubashi University, he worked at the Ministry of Home Affairs. He was elected for the first time in 2000 as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) but lost his seat three years later after defecting from the DPJ to join the second incarnation of the New Conservative Party. He was re-elected in 2005 as a representative for the LDP.