Ikuo Yamahana

Yamahana as Secretary of State for Justice in 2012

Ikuo Yamahana ( Japanese 山花 郁 夫 , Yamahana Ikuo ; born January 18, 1967 in the city of Chōfu , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician, MP from Tokyo Prefecture in the Japanese House of Commons and former Secretary of State . He has been a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party since 2017 .

Ikuo Yamahana, the grandson of SPJ MP Hideo Yamahana and son of SPJ MP, Party Chairman and Minister Sadao Yamahana (most recently for the Democratic Party ), studied at the law faculty of Ritsumeikan University . Until 1999 he worked for the legal training company LEC Tōkyō Legal Mind . After the death of his father in 1999, he switched to active politics. In the general election in 2000 , Yamahana ran for the Democratic Party in the 22nd constituency of Tokyo, to which Chofu belongs. His father had just lost the constituency as a Democrat to Tatsuya Itō ( NFP ) in 1996 , but retained a seat in the new proportional representation. Ikuo Yamahana won against five candidates in 2000 and was re-elected in 2003 . In the "post-privatization election" in 2005, Yamahana was clearly subject to Tatsuya Ito, who had joined the LDP in 1998.

In 2009 he won the constituency back. In the following reign of Democrats he was from 2010 to 2011 for the reformed Cabinet Kan parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , 2012 for the final transformation of the Cabinet Noda Vice Minister in the Ministry of Justice . In the following elections in 2012 and 2014, he was clearly defeated by Itō in constituency 22. With the Democratic Party, he joined the Democratic Progressive Party in 2016 . Before the 2017 general election , he joined the split-off Constitutional Democratic Party. For this he was subject to Itō again in constituency 22, but more tightly than in the previous elections, and won with his constituency result the fourth and last proportional representation of the KDP in the Tokyo block.

Web links

• Website (japanese)

Individual evidence

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