Representatives Elected In The 2024 Japanese General Election
General elections in Japan * This is a list of Representatives elected to the House of Representatives of Japan at the 2024 general election. Members Hokkaido block Constituency (12 seats) Proportional Representation Seats (8 seats) Tohoku block Constituency (21 seats) Proportional Representation Seats (12 seats) Northern Kanto block Constituency (33 seats) Proportional Representation Seats (19 seats) Southern Kanto block Constituency (36 seats) Proportional Representation Seats (23 seats) Tokyo block Constituency (30 seats) Proportional Representation Seats (19 seats) Hokuriku- Shinetsu block Constituency (18 seats) Proportional Representation Seats (10 seats) Tokai block Constituency (33 seats) Proportional Representation Seats (21 seats) Kansai (Kinki) block Constituency (45 seats) Proportional Representation Seats (28 seats) Chugoku block Constituency (17 seats) Proportional Representation S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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General Elections In Japan
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Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
The , frequently abbreviated to LDP, the Lib Dems, or , is a major conservativeThe Liberal Democratic Party is widely described as conservative: * * * * * and Japanese nationalism, nationalistSources describing the LDP as nationalist: * * * * * * A Weiss (31 May 2018). Towards a Beautiful Japan: Right-Wing Religious Nationalism in Japan's LDP. List of political parties in Japan, political party in Japan. Since its foundation in 1955, the LDP has been in power almost continuously—a period called the 1955 System—except from 1993 to 1996, and again from 2009 to 2012. The LDP was formed in 1955 as a merger of two conservative parties, the Liberal Party (Japan, 1950), Liberal Party and the Japan Democratic Party, and was initially led by Prime Minister of Japan, prime minister Ichirō Hatoyama. The LDP supported Japan's alliance with the United States and fostered close links between Japanese business and government, playing a major role in the country's Japanese eco ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hiroyuki Nakamura
Hiroyuki Nakamura (中村 ひろゆき, born February 23, 1961) is a Japanese politician who is serving in the House of Representatives as a representative from the Hokkaido since 2012. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party Several political parties from around the world have been called the Liberal Democratic Party, Democratic Liberal Party or Liberal Democrats. These parties have usually followed liberalism as ideology, although they can vary widely from very progr .... References 1961 births Living people Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2012–2014 Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2014–2017 Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2017–2021 Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2024– Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2021–2024 {{Japan-politician-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yoshitaka Itō
Yoshitaka Itō (born 24 November 1948) is a Japanese politician, who has served as a member of the House of Representatives from Hokkaido since 2009. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party Several political parties from around the world have been called the Liberal Democratic Party, Democratic Liberal Party or Liberal Democrats. These parties have usually followed liberalism as ideology, although they can vary widely from very progr .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ito, Yoshitaka Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians 1948 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Japanese people Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2009–2012 Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2012–2014 Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2014–2017 Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2017–2021 Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2021–2024 Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Arata Takebe
Arata Takebe (born 20 July 1970) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who is serving as a member of the House of Representatives for Hokkaido 12th district since 2012. He is the son of Tsutomu Takebe, who also served as a member of the House of Representatives. Early life and education Takebe was born in Shari, Hokkaido in 1970 and he later attended Sapporo Minami High School. After graduating from the Waseda University Faculty of Law (International Organization Law Seminar), he joined the Industrial Bank of Japan. After leaving the bank in 2000, he studied abroad at the University of Chicago, and completed a master's degree at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Public Policy in 2003. In the same year, he served as secretary to his father Tsutomu Takebe. Political career In the 2012 election, when his father retired, he ran in the Hokkaido 12th district after being recruited by the Liberal Democratic Party's Hokkaido chapter (effectively inh ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hokkaido 12th District
Hokkaidō 12th District (北海道第12区) is an electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. The district was established in 1994 and had major boundary changes in 2002 and 2017. Area The 12th District is in northern Hokkaido. It covers the areas of Sōya Subprefecture and Okhotsk Subprefecture; this includes the cities of Kitami, Abashiri, Monbetsu, and Wakkanai. It occupies about one-sixth of the area of Hokkaido and is the largest constituency in the House of Representatives (14,740.93 km2, the same as Iwate Prefecture).『 週刊新潮』 2009年6月18日号(新潮社 is a publisher founded in 1896 in Japan and headquartered in , Shinjuku, Tokyo, Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinchosha is one of the sponsors of the Japan Fantasy Novel Award. Books * Haruki Murakami: ''Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'' ...) In 2002, the Soya Branch Office was transferred to the 7th district of Hokkaido. In 2017, Th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kaori Ishikawa
is a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party in the House of Representatives, representing Hokkaido's 11th district after being elected for the first time. She was an analyst for Nippon BS Broadcasting before meeting her husband, Tomohiro Ishikawa, with whom she has two children. Ishikawa was born in Yokohama is the List of cities in Japan, second-largest city in Japan by population as well as by area, and the country's most populous Municipalities of Japan, municipality. It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a popu ... and graduated from the University of the Sacred Heart. References 1984 births Living people Women members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan politicians 20th-century Japanese women 21st-century Japanese women politicians Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2017–2021 Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2021–2024 Members of the Hou ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hokkaido 11th District
Hokkaidō 11th district (北海道 ��1区, ''Hokkaidō- ai-ūikku'') is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in southeastern Hokkaidō and consists of the city of Obihiro and the surrounding Tokachi Subprefecture. As of 2016, 291,852 eligible voters were registered in the district. The district is the country's second largest in terms of area after the neighbouring 12th district. The district has been represented by Kaori Ishikawa of the Constitutional Democratic Party since the 2017 general election, when she defeated the incumbent member Yūko Nakagawa from the Liberal Democratic Party. Both are incidentally the spouse of former members of the district. Ishikawa is married to Tomohiro Ishikawa, who was an MP for the district from 2009 until his defeat to Yūko Nakagawa in the 2012 general election. Nakagawa is married to former member and Finance Minister Shōichi Nakagawa. Background T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hiroshi Kamiya (politician)
is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet Diet may refer to: Food * Diet (nutrition), the sum of the food consumed by an organism or group * Dieting, the deliberate selection of food to control body weight or nutrient intake ** Diet food, foods that aid in creating a diet for weight loss ... (national legislature). Kamiya represents Hokkaido through the Hokkaido PR block. Kamiya first ran for office in the 2014 election as the DPJ candidate for the Hokkaido 10th district, losing against the incumbent Hisashi Inatsu. He would have a rematch with Inatsu in the 2017 general election. This time, he lost by a very narrow margin of 513 votes, making Hokkaido-10th one of the most marginal seats in the country. Nonetheless, Kamiya obtained enough votes to be elected through the CDP's PR block list. Before running for public office, Kamiya worked as a secretary in the offices of Councillor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hokkaido 10th District
is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. The district is located in the prefecture ''(-dō)'' of Hokkaidō and represents the municipalities within Hokkaido's Sorachi and Rumoi subprefectures, as well as the towns of Horokanai (formerly within Sorachi, now a part of Kamikawa Subprefecture) and Horonobe (formerly within Rumoi, now a part of Sōya Subprefecture). History The district was created in 1994 when the current system of single-member districts was introduced and first contested in the 1996 general election. It was formed from portions of the former 2nd and 4th districts that had existed under the multi-member system since 1947. In 1996 the seat was won by Democratic Party of Japan member Tadamasa Kodaira, who had been one of the representatives of the former 4th district since 1990. Kodaira retained the seat at the following four elections, until his loss to Komeito , formerly New K ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hokkaido 9th District
Hokkaidō 9th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of Hokkaido's Hidaka and Iburi Subprefectures. As of 2009, 414,438 eligible voters were registered in the district. Hokkaidō 9th district, like neighboring 8th and 10th district, was considered a "Democratic kingdom" (''minshu-ōkoku''), a stronghold of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). From its creation in 1996 until 2012 it had been represented by DPJ co-founder Yukio Hatoyama. In 2012, Hatoyama retired. The LDP had nominated Hokkaidō prefectural assemblyman and former Olympic speed skater Manabu Horii as their candidate in July 2012.The Japan Times, July 5, 2012Hatoyama could face tough re-election bid against Horii/ref> Horii held the seat until 2021 when he was defeated by Tatsumaru Yamaoka, son of Diet member Kenji Yamaoka. In the 2000, 2003 and 2005 general elections, the Liberal Democratic Party's candidate was Hirofumi Iwakura, later ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Seiji Osaka
is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Political career Mayor of Niseko Osaka ran for Mayor of Niseko, a ski resort area in Hokkaido is the list of islands of Japan by area, second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefectures of Japan, prefecture, making up its own list of regions of Japan, region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō fr ..., in the 1994 election, and held that position until he resigned in 2005 to run for national office in the House of Representatives. House of Representatives Osaka was first elected to the House of Representatives as a Hokkaido Proportional Representation candidate in 2005. In 2009 he was elected as the representative for Hokkaido's 8th district constituency, and served as such until he lost his seat in the 2012 election. He regained his seat in Hokkaido’s 8th district ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |