Shinji Morimoto (Morimoto Shinji, born 2 May 1973) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party, who has served in the House of Councillors (the upper house of the Diet) since 2013. [1]
Morimoto was born in Hiroshima Prefecture on May 2, 1973. He graduated from the Department of Social Welfare of Doshisha University in Kyoto in 1997. [1] That same year he joined the Matsushita Institute of Government and Management, a leadership academy founded by Konosuke Matsuhita, the founder of Panasonic. [2] He found work as a secretary in a Law Office in 1999. In 2003, He was elected to the Hiroshima City Assembly and served until his election to the House of Councillors in 2013.
Morimoto is a member of the following House committees:
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