Keishu Tanaka

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Keishu Tanaka (田中 慶秋, Tanaka Keishū, 6 March 1938 – 4 January 2022) was a Japanese politician. He was in the House of Representatives from 1983 until 1990, from 1996 until 2005 and again from 2009 until 2012. Tanaka was born in Sōma, Japan. Tanaka was Minister of Justice for a short time in October 2012 during the Yoshihiko Noda government.

Tanaka died on 4 January 2022 at a hospital in Yokohama, Japan from problems caused by cirrhosis, aged 83.[1]

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