Kozo Watanabe

Kōzō Watanabe was a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Tajima, Fukushima and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the first of his two terms in the assembly of Fukushima Prefecture in 1959 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1969 as an independent. He later joined the Liberal Democratic Party and eventually the DPJ. According to The Economist, he "represented agriculture interests in the Diet".