Hiroo Ishii

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Hiroo Ishii ( Japanese 石井 浩 郎 , Ishii Hiroo ; born June 21, 1964 in Hachirogata , Akita Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and former baseball player and coach. Since 2010 he has been one of the two representatives of Akita Prefecture in Sangiin for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) .

Baseball career

Ishii attended the prefecture-run Akita high school, which could not qualify for the Kōshien in his time . He then studied at Waseda University , for which he played in the League of Six Universities of Tokyo and in the American-Japanese university tournament. In 1987 he left the university prematurely and became an employee of Prince Hotel , with whose baseball team he won the "toshi taikō" (English Intercity Baseball Tournament ) in 1989 . In the draft of the same year he came in the third round to the Kintetsu Buffaloes in the Pacific League .

Ishii played for the Buffaloes for seven years as an infielder (first and third baseman) and was a regular member of the first team from the start. He played his strongest seasons in 1993, when he led the Pacific League with 147 hits , and in 1994, when he had the most RBI with 111 and the third-highest batting average in the league with .316. In both years he was inducted into the Pacific League's Best Nine as first baseman . From 1992 onwards he took part in the All-Star Games three times in a row . After that, his performance waned, and he broke his wrist in 1996 and only appeared in two games that year.

After his time at Kintetsu, he played for six years, first until 1999 for Kyojin , then for two years with Lotte and in 2002 one last season for Yokohama . Although he was regularly on the starting line-up again from 1998 to 2000, he could no longer match the top performances of the early 1990s. He ended his professional career in 2002 and worked as a baseball commentator for Nippon TV for a year . In 2004 he took over as manager of the second team of the Seibu Lions in the Eastern League, but retired after a year.

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For the 2010 Sangiin election , Ishii switched to politics and ran in his home prefecture (one seat per election) as the LDP candidate against the Democrat Yōetsu Suzuki . He was able to win back the seat in Akita with around 100,000 votes ahead of Suzuki, which the Liberal Democrats had held since 1968, especially with Man Sasaki, before 2004 , and is thus elected as a member of parliament for six years. In 2016 he was chairman of the Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology Committee for a few months in Sangiin.

For the 2016 Sangiin election , the Democratic Progressive Party formed a united front with the communists and smaller opposition parties in single-mandate electoral districts, the opposition's joint candidate was Daigo Matsuura , until 2013 as a Democrat in the other half for Akita in Sangiin. With 53.9% of the vote, Ishii won through less than six years earlier, but with more than 50,000 votes on Matsuura (44.0%) for another six years.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kobayashi matches Sasaki's record / Veteran Ishii to retire. In: The Japan Times . September 3, 2002, accessed November 4, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Sangiin 2016 election results, majority election, Akita
personal data
SURNAME Ishii, Hiroo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 石井浩 郎 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician and baseball player
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hachirogata (Akita) , Minamiakita-gun , Akita Prefecture