Yoshio Hachiro is a Japanese politician from the Constitutional Democratic Party and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet.
Jin Matsubara is a Japanese politician. He is a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. He was appointed Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety and Minister for the Abduction Issue. Matsubara was formerly affiliated with Party of Hope and the Democratic Party.
Yoshio Kimura is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet.
Yōsuke Isozaki is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Ōita, Ōita, he joined the Ministry of Home Affairs, upon graduation from the University of Tokyo in 1982. After leaving the ministry in 2006, he was elected the House of Councillors for the first time in 2007. He is affiliated to the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi.
Yasuo Ichikawa is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet and is the former Minister of Defence.
Kuniko Koda is a Japanese politician and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet.
Azuma Koshiishi is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet, and general secretary of the ruling Democratic Party. A native of Nirasaki, Yamanashi, and graduate of Tsuru University, he was elected to the House of Representatives of Japan in 1990, where he served for two terms until 1996 when he failed to be re-elected. He was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1998.
Yukiko Sakamoto is a Japanese politician and bureaucrat from Mishima, Shizuoka. She was the first woman to be appointed vice-governor of Shizuoka Prefecture in 1996 and served one term in the House of Councillors in the National Diet from 2004 until 2009.
Akiko Santō is a Japanese politician serving as the President of the House of Councillors of Japan. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, previously served as the Vice President of the House of Councillors.
Masaharu Nakagawa may refer to:
Shoji Nishida is a conservative Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. He, born in Kyoto Prefecture on 19 September 1958, graduated from Shiga University in 1981, became certified public tax accountant by passing the Licensed Tax Accountant Examination in 1984 and was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2007 after serving in the assembly of Kyoto Prefecture since 1990.
Yuichiro Hata was a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. A native of Setagaya, Tokyo, and graduate of Tamagawa University, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1999, a position he retained until his death in 2020. Hata was the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism from 4 June 2012 to 26 December 2012. He was the son of the late Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata.
Tatsuo Hirano is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Kitakami, Iwate and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in 1977, attending the Iowa State University in the United States as a ministry official. In 2001, he left the ministry and was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time.
Takeshi Maeda is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a former member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Yoshino District, Nara, he graduated from Kyoto University and received a master's degree from it. After serving in the House of Representatives for four terms, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2004. In September 2011 he was appointed as Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda. However, Maeda left the ministry the following year after a series of censure motions were passed by the House of Councillors in April 2012, which required prime minister Noda to dismiss both Maeda and the Minister of Defence Naoki Tanaka in order to get support from the opposition parties to pass his plan to increase Japan's consumption tax rate. Maeda retired from the House of Councillors after his term expired in 2016.
Toshio Yamauchi is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Marugame, Kagawa and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1998 after serving in the assembly of Kagawa Prefecture since 1991.
Yoshiki Yamashita is a Japanese politician who serves as a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet, representing the Japan Communist Party. A native of Kagawa Prefecture and graduate of Tottori University, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1995 after running unsuccessfully in 1992. He lost the seat in the 2001 re-election and then ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives in 2003 and 2005. In 2007, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the second time. He is known for his left-wing radicalism.
The Kagawa at-large district is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It consists of Kagawa Prefecture and elects two Councillors, one every three years by a first-past-the-post system for a six-year term. In the first election in 1947, Kagawa like all districts used single non-transferable vote to elect both its Councillors in one election.
People's Life First was a short-lived political party in Japan. It had 37 out of the 480 seats in the House of Representatives, and 12 in the 242-member House of Councillors. On 28 November 2012, the party merged into Governor of Shiga Yukiko Kada's Japan Future Party based in Ōtsu.
Tetsuji Isozaki is a Japanese politician who has served as a member of the House of Councillors of Japan since 2013. He represents the National proportional representation block and is a member of the Democratic Party For the People.
