Tomohiro Ishikawa

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Tomohiro Ishikawa ( Japanese 石川 知 裕 , Ishikawa Tomohiro ; born June 18, 1973 in Ashoro , Ashoro County , Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese politician and former member of the Shūgiin , the lower house. There he was last non-attached. He had been a member of the Democratic Party until 2010 , when he had to leave the party because of the donation scandal involving former party leader Ichirō Ozawa . Ishikawa is running for the 2019 gubernatorial election in Hokkaidō (part of the unified election ) with support from the national center-left opposition parties.

Ishikawa, a graduate of Waseda University , worked in Ichirō Ozawa's office before graduating in 1996 and then became its secretary. In the Shūgiin election 2005 Ishikawa ran for the Democratic Party, to which Ozawa now belonged, in the 11th constituency of Hokkaidō , but was subject to Shōichi Nakagawa . On the proportional representation list Hokkaidō of the Democrats Ishikawa took first place among the unelected candidates and was in 2007 after the resignation of Satoshi Arai for the gubernatorial election in Hokkaidō as a successor MP. In 2009 he was able to beat Nakagawa in his constituency with around 30,000 votes and defended his mandate.

In January 2010, Ishikawa and two other Ozawa secretaries were arrested during the scandal over a land purchase scandal by Ozawa's support organization Rikuzankai in the course of the Tokyo District Attorney's investigation. 400 million yen , which Ozawa had provided himself and which the Rikuzankai used to purchase land in Setagaya , had not been included in Ozawa's reports of political funds managed by Ishikawa. Prosecutors suspected that part of the amount came from a construction company bidding for the Isawa Dam in Ozawa's home constituency in Iwate Prefecture. In February 2010, the prosecutor said they would prosecute Ishikawa. Ishikawa was released on bail and left the Democratic Party a few weeks later.

In 2011, Ishikawa joined the Shinto Daichi . For this he lost his constituency to Yūko Nakagawa , the widow of Shōichi Nakagawa in the Shūgiin election 2012 , but won the only Daichi mandate in the proportional representation in Hokkaidō. He resigned in May 2013. Takako Suzuki succeeded him as a successor for the New Daichi Party .

In the 2017 Shūgiin election , when Ishikawa's voting rights were still restricted because of the Rikuzankai scandal, his wife Kaori ran for the Constitutional Democratic Party in constituency 11 and won against Nakagawa.

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  1. ↑ Ishikawa admits deliberate report omissions; Okubo served fresh warrant. In: The Japan Times . January 17, 2010, accessed May 6, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Ozawa in clear; Ishikawa charged. Only ex-aide's word against DPJ kingpin's. In: The Japan Times . February 5, 2010, accessed May 6, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Hatoyama says Ozawa can stay. Prime minister 'wants me to continue giving my best'. In: The Japan Times . February 9, 2010, accessed May 6, 2010 .
  4. ^ Ex-Ozawa aide convicted over fund scandal to quit as Diet member. In: The Japan Times . May 17, 2013, accessed October 17, 2013 .
  5. ↑ 立憲 ・ 石川 香 織 氏 、 「妻」 対 決 を 制 す 元 議員 の の 夫 も 喜 び . In: Asahi Shimbun Digital. October 23, 2017. Retrieved March 16, 2018 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Ishikawa, Tomohiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 石川 知 裕 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Ashoro , Ashoro-gun , Hokkaidō