What is Yōhei Kōno?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Yōhei Kōno |native_name = {{nobold|河野 洋平}} |native_name_lang = ja |image = Yōhei Kōno.jpg |image_size = 220px |office = [[List of Speakers of the House of Representatives of Japan|Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan]] |primeminister = [[Junichirō Koizumi]] <br /> [[Shinzō Abe]] <br /> [[Yasuo Fukuda]] <br /> [[Tarō Asō]] |term_start = 19 November 2003 |term_end = 21 July 2009 |predecessor = [[Tamisuke Watanuki]] |successor = [[Takahiro Yokomichi]] |office1 = President of the [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]] |term_start1 = 29 July 1993 |term_end1 = 1 October 1995 |predecessor1 = [[Kiichi Miyazawa]] |successor1 = [[Ryutaro Hashimoto]] |office2 = [[Leader of the Opposition (Japan)|Leader of the Opposition]] |primeminister2 = [[Morihiro Hosokawa]]<br />[[Tsutomu Hata]] |term_start2 = 9 August 1993 |term_end2 = 10 June 1994 |predecessor2 = [[Sadao Yamahana]] |successor2 = [[Toshiki Kaifu]] |office3 = President of the [[Japan Association of Athletics Federations]] |term_start3 = 1999 |term_end3 = 2013 |predecessor3 = [[Hanji Aoki]] |successor3 = [[Hiroshi Yokokawa]] |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1937|1|15|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Hiratsuka, Kanagawa]], Japan |death_date = |children = [[Tarō Kōno]] |alma_mater = [[Waseda University]] }} {{Nihongo|'''Yōhei Kōno''' |河野 洋平|Kōno Yōhei|extra=born 15 January 1937}} is a Japanese politician. He was the President of the [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]]. He was Speaker of the [[House of Representatives of Japan|House of Representatives]] from November 2003 until August 2009, when the LDP lost its majority in the [[2009 Japanese general election|2009 election]]. Kōno was speaker for the longest length since the set up of House of Representatives in 1890.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kono's tenure longest as speaker|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20081120a9.html|access-date=22 Nove