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Date of birth: Oct. 30, 1945
LDP faction: Koga
Electoral district: Lower House; Fukuoka No. 3 (eighth term)
A former Management and Coordination Agency chief, Ota started out as an economics professor. He switched to politics in 1980 with support from his father-in-law, the governor of Fukuoka.
Ota has since been involved in economic policy. Under Noboru Takeshita in the late 1980s, he worked for the introduction of the consumption tax. He also played a role in changes in the Commercial Law in the late 1990s.
He worked for the realignment of government ministries and agencies in 2001.
The outspoken Ota left the LDP in 1994 to form a small party. Through the political realignment that followed, he returned to the LDP the next year.
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