Yōhei Kōno

Yōhei Kōno
河野 洋平
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan
In office 19 November 2003 – 21 July 2009
Prime Minister	Junichirō Koizumi Shinzō Abe Yasuo Fukuda Tarō Asō
Preceded by	Tamisuke Watanuki
Succeeded by	Takahiro Yokomichi
President of the Liberal Democratic Party
In office 29 July 1993 – 1 October 1995
Preceded by	Kiichi Miyazawa
Succeeded by	Ryutaro Hashimoto
Leader of the Opposition
In office 9 August 1993 – 10 June 1994
Prime Minister	Morihiro Hosokawa Tsutomu Hata
Preceded by	Sadao Yamahana
Succeeded by	Toshiki Kaifu
President of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations
In office 1999–2013
Preceded by	Hanji Aoki
Succeeded by	Hiroshi Yokokawa
Personal details
Born	(1937-01-15) 15 January 1937 (age 87) Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan
Children	Tarō Kōno
Alma mater	Waseda University

Yōhei Kōno (河野 洋平, Kōno Yōhei, born 15 January 1937) is a Japanese politician. He was the President of the Liberal Democratic Party. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives from November 2003 until August 2009, when the LDP lost its majority in the 2009 election.

Kōno was speaker for the longest length since the set up of House of Representatives in 1890.^[1] He was the president of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations from 1999 to 2013.^[2]

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