Seiichi Eto

Seiichi Eto
衛藤 晟一
Official portrait, 2019
Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety
In office 11 September 2019 – 16 September 2020
Prime Minister	Shinzo Abe
Preceded by	Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi
Succeeded by	Shinji Inoue
Ministerial offices Minister of State for Declining Birth Rates In office 11 September 2019 – 16 September 2020 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Preceded by Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi Succeeded by Satoshi Sakamoto Minister of State for Ocean Policy In office 11 September 2019 – 16 September 2020 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Preceded by Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi Succeeded by Hachiro Okonogi Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs In office 11 September 2019 – 16 September 2020 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Preceded by Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi Succeeded by Taro Kono
Member of the House of Councillors
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 July 2007
Constituency	National PR
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 11 November 2003 – 8 August 2005
Constituency	Kyushu PR
In office 19 February 1990 – 2 June 2000
Constituency	Ōita 1st (1990–1996) Kyushu PR (1996–2000)
Member of the Ōita Prefectural Assembly
In office April 1979 – November 1986
Constituency	Ōita City
Member of the Ōita City Assembly
In office 1973 – March 1979
Personal details
Born	(1947-10-01) 1 October 1947 (age 77) Ōita, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Alma mater	Oita University (BEc)

Seiichi Eto (衛藤 晟一, Etō Seiichi, born October 1, 1947) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who is serving as a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature).

Eto is a native of Ōita, Ōita and graduate of Oita University,

Eto served in the city assembly of Ōita for two terms from 1973 and the assembly of Ōita Prefecture for two terms from 1979.

He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990 after an unsuccessful run in 1986. In 2000 he lost the seat but was re-elected three years later. He, however, lost the seat again in 2005. In 2007 he ran for the House of Councillors and was elected.

In 2019 Eto entered the 4th Abe cabinet as the Minister of state for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs.

Eto is affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi.^[1]

• 政治家情報 〜衛藤 晟一〜. / ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2007-10-25.

• Official website in Japanese.

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