Goshi Hosono

Goshi Hosono has sat in the Diet since his first election in 2000 — a law graduate of Kyoto University who went to high school in Shiga. Even our own records disagree about where he is from, Kyoto or Shiga, which says something about how thin the personal layer gets on a lifelong politician. What I cannot forget is 2011. While the Fukushima nuclear accident was still unfolding, he took the portfolio nobody could hold without being blamed, at the hour the fire was highest. His party banner has changed more than once since, and critics read that as opportunism. I would note that the banners themselves were disintegrating throughout those years. He is still in office, so I am comfortable letting the verdict wait a while longer.

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Name (English)

Goshi Hosono

Name (Japanese)

細野豪志

Reading

ほその ごうし

Born

August 21, 1971 (age 55)

Origin

Ayabe, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Boar

High school

Shiga Hikone Higashi High School

University

Faculty of Law, Kyoto University

Awards & achievements

• 2012 Dixy Lee Ray Award

• Official sitehttps://www.gohosono.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/goshi.hosono/
• Xhttps://x.com/hosono_54
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goshi%20Hosono
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%B0%E9%87%8E%E8%B1%AA%E5%BF%97
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1135729

Tags

• Kyoto Prefecture
• politician

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.