Yasuhiro Sonoda

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


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