Azuma Koshiishi

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Azuma Koshiishi ( Japanese 輿 石 東 , Koshiishi Azuma ; born May 14, 1936 in Nirasaki , Yamanashi Prefecture , Japan ) is a former Japanese politician ( Socialist Party of Japan → Social Democratic Party → Democratic Party , Yokomichi Group → Democratic Progressive Party ) and was a member of parliament in both chambers of the national parliament, from 2013 to 2016 Vice-President of the House of Lords.

Koshiishi, a graduate of the state Tsuru Tanki Daigaku ("Tsuru Short University"), initially worked as a primary school teacher. In the 1980s he rose to the Yamanashi Teachers Union. From 1986 he was chairman of the trade union federation Rengō Yamanashi.

Since the 1990 election , Koshiishi was a candidate of the Japanese Socialist Party for Yamanashi in the Shūgiin , the lower house. In 1996 he was voted out of office as a candidate for the new Democratic Party in the newly created 1st constituency of Yamanashi. In 1998 he was elected to the Sangiin as an independent for Yamanashi (one seat per election) and in 2004 he was re-elected to office for the Democratic Party. In Sangiin he was chairman of the transport committee from 2003 to 2004. In 2010 he was re-elected by a narrow margin over the liberal democrat Noriko Miyagawa .

From 2004 Koshiishi was General Secretary ( kanjichō ), from 2006 to 2013 then chairman of the Sangiin faction of the Democratic Party. In the party executive committee he was deputy party chairman ( daihyō daikō ) from 2007 to 2009 , and from 2011 to 2012 general secretary under Yoshihiko Noda . After the Sangiin election in 2013 , in which the Democrats lost their status as the strongest party after six years to the Liberal Democrats, Koshiishi was elected Vice President. He did not run for the 2016 election .

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SURNAME Koshiishi, Azuma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 輿 石 東 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Nirasaki , Yamanashi Prefecture , Japan