Shoichi Kondo

Shoichi Kondo (近藤 昭一) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). He is a former member of the Democratic Party (DP), the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), and New Party Sakigake. After he joined the DPJ in 1996, he was elected to the House of Representatives.

He joined the Chunichi Shimbun, a major left-leaning, progressive and social-democratic general newspaper, in 1984 and left the company in 1993.

Kondo is part of the CDP's shadow cabinet 'Next Cabinet' as the shadow Minister of the Environment.