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is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, a member of House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Yamahana served as Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Naoto Kan and as Deputy Justice Minister in the cabinet of Yoshihiko Noda.
Yamahana is the son of the former chairman of the 
Yamahana has only run in Tokyo's 22nd district for all his parliamentary career and represented it several times. He lost his seat twice in the LDP landslides of 2005 and 2012. After 2 unsuccessful runs to regain his seat in 2012 and 2014, Yamahana managed to return to the Diet in the 2017 election via the
Official website
Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Ritsumeikan University alumni Living people 1967 births Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan politicians Democratic Party of Japan politicians Social Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Japanese social democrats 21st-century Japanese politicians {{Japan-politician-1960s-stub
Japanese Socialist Party
The was a socialist and progressive political party in Japan that existed from 1945 to 1996. The party was founded as the Social Democratic Party of Japan by members of several proletarian parties that existed before World War II, including ...
, Sadao Yamahana
was a member and chairman of the Japan Socialist Party (JSP). He was the chairman from January 1993 to September 1993.
In late 1994, he formed his own faction in the JSP called the New Democratic Union. In early 1995, he then formed a new party ...
. He started his political career as a secretary to then-Diet member and future Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama
is a former Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 16 September 2009 to 8 June 2010. He was the first Prime Minister from the modern Democratic Party of Japan.
First elected to the House of Representatives in 1986, Hatoy ...
.
Yamahana has only run in Tokyo's 22nd district for all his parliamentary career and represented it several times. He lost his seat twice in the LDP landslides of 2005 and 2012. After 2 unsuccessful runs to regain his seat in 2012 and 2014, Yamahana managed to return to the Diet in the 2017 election via the Tokyo proportional representation block
The Tōkyō proportional representation block (), or more formally the proportional representation tier , is one of eleven proportional representation (PR) "blocks", multi-member constituencies for the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japa ...
. While losing the race for the Tokyo-22nd seat, he gained enough votes to be returned through the CDP's list in the Tokyo block.
See also
*Tokyo Shimbun
''The Tokyo Shimbun'' (東京新聞, ''Tōkyō Shinbun'', literally ''Tokyo Newspaper'') is a Japanese newspaper published by The Chunichi Shimbun Company. The group publishes newspapers under the brand name of The Tokyo Shimbun in the Tokyo Metr ...
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Official website
Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Ritsumeikan University alumni Living people 1967 births Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan politicians Democratic Party of Japan politicians Social Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Japanese social democrats 21st-century Japanese politicians {{Japan-politician-1960s-stub