Yasuhiro Sonoda

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Yasuhiro Sonoda (園田康博, Sonoda Yasuhiro, born June 9, 1967) is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. A native of Amakusa District, Kumamoto, he attended Nihon University as undergraduate and graduate students and Keio University as a research student. He was elected for the first time in 2003 after unsuccessful runs in 1998 and 2000.

Sonoda became internationally known for drinking a glass of water, collected from puddles under the reactor buildings at the radioactively polluted Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, during a press conference to prove the safety of the installed decontamination procedures.^[1]^[2]

References

"政治家情報〜園田康博〜". ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2007-10-02.

↑ BBC: Japan MP Yasuhiro Sonoda drinks Fukushima water, 1 November 2011
↑ Die Welt (German): Politiker trinkt Fukushima-Wasser ("Politician drinking Fukushima-water"), 1 November 2011

External links

Official website in Japanese.

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Name	Sonoda, Yasuhiro
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Date of birth	1967
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