Yoshio Mochizuki

Yoshio Mochizuki (望月 義夫, Mochizuki Yoshio, 2 May 1947 – 19 December 2019) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature), and a Minister of the Environment.

Mochizuki was a native of Shimizu, Shizuoka and graduate of Chuo University.

Mochizuki was elected to the first of his four terms in the city assembly of Shimizu in 1975 and to the first of his two terms in the assembly of Shizuoka Prefecture in 1991.

He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996 as an independent. He was affiliated to the openly revisionist organization Nippon Kaigi.^[1]

Mochizuki died in office at the age of 72 on 19 December 2019.^[2]

• 政治家情報 〜望月 義夫〜. www.senkyo.janjan.jp ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on December 3, 2007. Retrieved 2007年10月14日.

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