Soichiro Ito (politician)

Soichiro Ito
伊藤 宗一郎
Ito in 1982
Speaker of the House of Representatives
In office 7 November 1996 – 2 June 2000
Monarch	Akihito
Deputy	Kōzō Watanabe
Preceded by	Takako Doi
Succeeded by	Tamisuke Watanuki
Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency
In office 30 November 1981 – 27 November 1982
Prime Minister	Zenkō Suzuki
Preceded by	Koji Omura
Succeeded by	Kazuho Tanigawa
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 29 January 1967 – 4 September 2001
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Shintaro Ito
Constituency	Miyagi 1st (1967–1996) Miyagi 4th (1996–2001)
In office 21 November 1960 – 23 October 1963
Constituency	Miyagi 1st
Personal details
Born	(1924-03-21)21 March 1924 Ōsaki, Miyagi, Japan
Died	4 September 2001(2001-09-04) (aged 77) Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Children	Shintaro Ito
Alma mater	Tohoku University
Military service
Allegiance	Japan
Branch/service	Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service	1940s
Rank	Second Lieutenant

Soichiro Ito (伊藤宗一郎, Itō Sōichirō, 21 March 1924 – 4 September 2001) was a Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1967 until his death in 2001. From 1981 to 1982, Ito was the Director General of the Japan Defense Agency.

Born in Miyagi Prefecture in 1924, he studied law at Tohoku University and served briefly as a second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army.