is a Japanese politician born on January 8, 1958. He is a former member of the

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and was the inaugural Secretary-General of the

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, an opposition party formed in August 2014. A graduate of Kyoto University (with a major in law), In April 2010 Yamada became chairman of the Spirit of Japan Party, which he founded for the Upper House election, with Hiroshi Nakada, the former mayor of Yokohama, and Hiroshi Saitō, the former governor of Yamagata. The party won a few seats at the prefectural and municipal level in the regional elections in 2011, and broke up in the fall of 2012 to join the

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of the former governor of Tokyo

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, and later joined his Party for Future Generations. He lost his seat in the Diet in the December 2014 general election. In September 2015 it was announced that he would contest the 2016

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election as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. Like Ishihara, Yamada is affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby

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. He often gives lectures to local branches of the organization.Nippon Kaigi website

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Party for Japanese Kokoro politicians 21st-century Japanese politicians Living people 1958 births Members of Nippon Kaigi Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Kyoto University alumni Fellows of the American Physical Society {{Japan-politician-1950s-stub