Kyōichi Tsushima

Kyōichi Tsushima ( Japanese 津 島 恭 一 , Tsushima Kyōichi ; born February 4, 1954 in Kanagi (today: Goshogawara ), Aomori Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician. He was most recently a member of the Democratic Party ( Ozawa Group ) until 2012 as a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the Japanese parliament , for the Tōhoku proportional representation .

Tsushima studied at the economics faculty of Musashi University and later became secretary of the Shūgiin member Kichirō Tazawa , the son-in-law of his great-uncle Bunji . In the Shūgiin election in 1996 he ran for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the new constituency Aomori 4 , but was subject to Tarō Kimura ( NFP ). In the next election in 2000 he came in 6th on the LDP proportional representation in Tōhoku (the constituency candidates were placed 7th), but the LDP won only five seats with 31% of the vote. Only when Hidefumi Minorikawa died in April 2003 did Tsushima move into Shūgiin as a successor. In the LDP he joined the Hashimoto faction (the later Tsushima faction of Yūji Tsushima , the son-in-law of Dazai Osamus , another great-uncle). In the regular elections in October of the same year he was re-elected, now at number 5 on the LDP list in Tōhoku.

In the 162nd & 163rd session of the parliament, the so-called "post-parliament" ( yūsei kokkai ), when considerable parts of the LDP opposed the post-privatization promoted by the Prime Minister-Party Chairman Jun'ichirō Koizumi , Tsushima was one of the "rebels" and voted against the privatization law. Before the new elections initiated by Koizumi, he resigned from the LDP, thus preventing a party from being expelled. Together with other "rebels" he founded the New People's Party (NVP). For this he lost the constituency Aomori 4 beaten in third place to Tarō Kimura (now LDP) and although it led the NVP proportional representation in Tōhoku, the party missed a mandate with 4.7% of the votes. A candidacy for the Sangiin in the 2007 election via proportional representation remained unsuccessful with around 74,000 preferential votes and thus third place on the NVP list.

In 2008 Tsushima left the NVP and soon after joined the Democratic Party. For this he lost the fourth constituency of Aomori again to Tarō Kimura in the Shūgiin election in 2009 , but won a secure mandate over the proportional representation as the second best constituency loser of the Democrats in Tōhoku. In the Shūgiin election in 2012 he was defeated more clearly and clearly missed re-election in the bloc.

In November 2013 he left the Democratic Party.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• kingendaikeizu.net: Tsushima family (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 民主 元 議員 の 離 党 相 次 ぐ 鈴木 寛 、 津 島 氏 . (No longer available online.) In: Fukui Shimbun Online. November 19, 2013, archived from the original on March 8, 2017 ; Retrieved March 7, 2017 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.