Nobuto Hosaka

Hosaka campaigning for the 2005 Tokyo general election .

Nobuto Hosaka ( Japanese 保 坂 展 人 , Hosaka Nobuto ; born November 26, 1955 in Sendai , Miyagi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and belonged to the Shūgiin , the lower house , for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from 1996 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2009 of the national parliament .

Hosaka was already active in his school days in national left student associations, the Shinjuku high school of Tokyo Prefecture ( Tōkyō-to-ritsu Shinjuku kōtō-gakkō ) he left without a degree. In the 1980s he worked as an education journalist and advocated anti-authoritarian forms of education.

In the 1996 Shūgiin election , Hosaka ran at the same time in the Tokyo 22 constituency , which he lost to fifth place, and through the newly created proportional representation for the SDP in the Tokyo block. Since he was the only one on the list, he received the only seat that the Social Democrats won in the Tokyo block. There he was re-elected in 2000 , when he lost the constituency of Tokyo 6, and again in 2005 , when the SDP had not actually received a mandate in the Tokyo block, but won a seat because the Liberal Democratic Party had nominated too few candidates. In the Shūgiin election in 2009 he changed constituencies again and stood in the 8th constituency against Nobuteru Ishihara , the son of the governor of Tokyo, lost by around 30,000 votes. Since the SDP remained without a proportional representation, he resigned from parliament. During his time as an MP, he was a member of the Judiciary Committee and Secretary General of the Parliamentary Group for the Abolition of the Death Penalty of Shizuka Kamei .

In the 2010 Sangiin election , Hosaka tried to move to the national upper house via the nationwide proportional representation, received almost 70,000 preferential votes and thus reached third place on the list - but the SDP only won two proportional representation mandates. In the unified regional elections in April 2011 , he was elected from a field of five candidates for Mayor of Setagaya , the most populous municipality in Tokyo Prefecture.

Web links

• Official website (Japanese, parts of English)