Former posts minister Oide dies

Former posts minister Oide dies

TOKYO, Japan - Shun Oide (file photo), a former posts and telecommunications minister and a long-time parliamentarian, died Nov. 8 at a hospital in Yokohama. He was 79. Oide, a former member of the opposition Japan Socialist Party, now called the Social Democratic Party, was known as a leading polemicist on security and defense issues in Diet debates, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s.

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          TOKYO, Japan - Shun Oide (file photo), a former posts and telecommunications minister and a long-time parliamentarian, died Nov. 8 at a hospital in Yokohama. He was 79. Oide, a former member of the opposition Japan Socialist Party, now called the Social Democratic Party, was known as a leading polemicist on security and defense issues in Diet debates, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s.