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Tomoo Nishikawa
is a Japanese attorney and former politician, having previously served for one term in the House of Representatives. Background Nishikawa graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo and worked at the Ministry of Construction until 1975. Having passed the bar examination in university, he attended the Legal Research and Training Institute from 1975 and was admitted to the bar in 1977. Following admission, he became a partner at the law firm of Anderson & Mori (now Anderson Mori & Tomotsune) before leaving to co-found the firm of Komatsu, Koma & Nishikawa. While at Anderson, he completed an LLM at Harvard Law School in 1979. In October 1996, he ran in the Japanese general election for a seat representing the Kanagawa 3rd district as a member of the New Frontier Party, and defeated the LDP incumbent Hachiro Okonogi to win the seat. After the NFP dissolved in 1997, Nishikawa joined the Reform Club party led by Tatsuo Ozawa. He remained a member of this party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanagawa 3rd District
, the House of Representatives of Japan is elected from a combination of multi-member districts and single-member districts, a method called Parallel voting. Currently, 176 members are elected from 11 multi-member districts (called proportional representation blocks or PR blocks) by a party-list system of proportional representation (PR), and 289 members are elected from single-member districts, for a total of 465. 233 seats are therefore required for a majority. Each PR block consists of one or more prefectures, and each prefecture is divided into one or more single-member districts. In general, the block districts correspond loosely to the major regions of Japan, with some of the larger regions (such as KantÅ) subdivided. History Until the 1993 general election, all members of the House of Representatives were elected in multi-member constituencies by single non-transferable vote. In 1994, Parliament passed an electoral reform bill that introduced the current system of pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
