Akihiro Hatsushika

Akihiro Hatsushika ( Japanese 初鹿明博 Hatsushika Akihiro * 15. April 1969 in the district of Edogawa , Tokyo , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( Democratic Party → Green Wind → Japanese Science Party → Party of restoration / renovation ( ishin ) → Democratic Progressive Party → Constitutionally Democratic Party ) and member of the House of Representatives , the lower house of the National Assembly , for the Tokyo proportional representation block.

Hatsushika, a law graduate from the University of Tokyo , became secretary to the Liberal Democratic MP Ichirō Aisawa from Okayama . In the 1997 election, he ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Democratic Party in his home constituency of Edogawa-ku (five-seat constituency) for the prefectural parliament of Tokyo. Afterwards he was secretary to the Democratic MP Yukio Hatoyama . In the second attempt, in the 2001 election, he made the leap into the prefectural parliament; In 2005 he was re-elected.

In 2009, Hatsushika switched to national politics: in the 2009 House of Representatives election , he ran for the Democratic Party in the 16th constituency of Tokyo, which includes parts of Edogawa-ku, and prevailed against the liberal-democratic incumbent Yoshinobu Shimamura . In the summer of 2012 he voted against the VAT increase introduced by the Noda cabinet, but, unlike many other “rebels”, initially remained in the party, apart from a temporary two-month suspension. It was not until November 2011 that he stepped down for the upcoming parliamentary elections in 2012 and initially joined the Midori no Kaze, but then ran for the future party, in which most of the ex-democratic opponents of VAT increases, TPP accession and nuclear power gathered for the election . With just 11% of the vote, Hatsushika landed in fourth place in 2012, while Liberal Democrat Hideo Ōnishi won the seat .

In 2014 , Hatsushika ran for the Ishin party and was clearly defeated by Hideo Ōnishi (46.3%) in the Tokyo 16 constituency with 26.6% of the vote, but won one of the three Ishin seats in the proportional representation in the Tokyo block. When the Ishin split in 2015, he stayed with the rump party, which united with the Democrats to form the Democratic Progressive Party in 2016. When it positioned itself for the 2017 House of Representatives election and split again as a result, Hatsushika opposed the attempt by the party leadership around Seiji Maehara to convert the entire party into the Party of Hope led by Yuriko Koike , which oversees the security and constitutional policy of the Abe government Principle supported. He joined Yukio Edano's Constitutional Democratic Party. In the election he lost the constituency with 34.6% of the vote to Ōnishi (40.9%), thus reaching the third KDP list place and again winning a seat in the proportional representation.

Web links

• Website (japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 民主党 、 離 党 者 ら の 処分 な ど 決定 除名 37 人 、 党員 資格 停止 19 人 . In: nikkei.com . July 3, 2012, accessed January 10, 2018 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : election results Shūgiin 2012, Tokyo 16
3. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : election results Shūgiin 2014, Tokyo (majority constituencies) & Tokyo (proportional representation constituency)
4. ↑ 東京 民進 で も 希望 不 参加 者 が 相 次 ぐ 「排除 の 論理」 と 批判 . In: Sankei News . October 1, 2017, accessed January 10, 2018 (Japanese). 
5. ↑ ＜ 衆院 選 ＞ 都 内 民進 前 職 ら 相 次 ぎ 表明 「希望 に 合流 せ ず」 . (No longer available online.) In: Tōkyō Shimbun . October 2, 2017, archived from the original on October 3, 2017 ; Retrieved January 10, 2018 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ ＜ 衆院 選 ＞ 激 戦 区 ル ポ １０ 区 ・ １６ 区 , 2nd part. (No longer available online.) In: Tōkyō Shimbun . October 17, 2017, archived from the original on January 11, 2018 ; Retrieved January 10, 2018 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Shūgiin 2017 election results, Tokyo (majority vote) ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. & Tokyo (proportional representation) ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.