Yasuo Fukuda, Chairman of the Board, Boao Forum for Asia, Former Prime Minister, Japan

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Yasuo Fukuda was born in Takasaki, Gunma in July 1936. He joined Maruzen Petroleum (now part of the Cosmo Oil Company) after graduation from Waseda University in 1959. From December 1977 to December 1978, He was the Executive Assistant to the Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda. In 1990, he was first elected as a Member of the House of Representatives. From June 1992 to October 1999, he was served in the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee of the governing office. In July 2000, he became Vice President of Home Affairs investigating the Liberal Democratic Party, and then he became the Secretary of State, Chief Cabinet Secretary in October the same year. He was re-elected as Chief Cabinet Secretary in April 2001 and in September 2003. In September 2007, he was elected as the 22nd president of the LDP. He was then elected as the 91th Prime Minister of Japan in September 25th 2007 until September 2008 in plenary meeting of the House of Representatives. Yasuo Fukuda was the eldest son of later Prime Minister of Japan, so it happened to be two generations of Prime Minister in Japan.