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2023 Japan By-elections
In 2023, by-elections were held in Japan in order to fill vacancies in the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, the two houses of the National Diet of Japan. April by-elections On 23 April 2023, 5 by-elections were held together with the second phase of the unified local elections (municipal elections except designated major cities), including Yamaguchi 4th district, the seat of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who was assassinaed on 8 July 2022. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and opposition Japan Innovation Party both made 1 pickup, flipping an Independent and a Democratic Party for the People seat respectively. October by-elections The October by-elections were held on 22 October 2023 after Nagasaki 4th district representative Seigo Kitamura's death and the resignation of Tokushima-Kōchi at-large district representative Kojiro Takano after beating his secretary. Both representatives were members of the Liberal Democratic Party. The LDP lost 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Representatives (Japan)
The is the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors is the upper house. The composition of the House is established by and of the Constitution of Japan. The House of Representatives has 465 members, elected for a four-year term. Of these, 176 members are elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a party-list system of proportional representation, and 289 are elected from single-member constituencies. The overall voting system used to elect the House of Representatives is a parallel system, a form of semi-proportional representation. Under a parallel system the allocation of list seats does not take into account the outcome in the single seat constituencies. Therefore, the overall allocation of seats in the House of Representatives is not proportional, to the advantage of larger parties. In contrast, in bodies such as the German ''Bundestag'' or the New Zealand Parliament the election of single-seat members and party list members is linked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hajime Hirota
is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party and a former member of the House of Councillors in the National Diet, having served two terms from 2004 until 2016. He previously served two terms in the Kōchi Prefectural Assembly from 1995 until 2001. In 2015 changes to the electoral laws merged Hirota's Kōchi at-large district with the neighbouring Tokushima district, in order to address the problem of disparity in the representation of urban and rural areas. In October 2015 Hirota announced that he would not contest the merged Tokushima-Kōchi at-large district The is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). The district was formed in 2015 from a merger of the Tokushima and Kōchi at-large districts. Liberal Democratic Party member was elected as its firs ... at the 2016 election as a protest against the merger. In June 2016 it was reported that Hirota would instead contest one of Kochi Prefecture's districts at the next Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kojiro Takano
Kōjirō Takano is a Japanese politician who served as a member of the House of Councillors of Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north .... Biography He was elected in 2013 and in 2019 for Tokushima, Kochi Prefecture. In June 2023, he resigned after confessing he had assaulted his secretary. References Living people 1974 births Members of the House of Councillors (Japan) {{Japan-politician-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokushima-Kōchi At-large District
The is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). The district was formed in 2015 from a merger of the Tokushima and Kōchi at-large districts. Liberal Democratic Party member was elected as its first representative at the House of Councillors election in July 2016. District outline The district was formed pursuant to a 2015 revision of the ''Public Officers Election Law'' from a merger of the Tokushima and Kōchi at-large districts to address the imbalance in representation between rural and urban districts. At the same time, the Tottori and Shimane at-large districts were merged to form the Tottori-Shimane at-large district and changes in the number of Councillors representing eight other prefectures were also made to address the imbalance. The district represents Kochi and Tokushima Prefectures and had 1,261,100 registered voters at the most recent annual survey in September 2015. The district will elect two Councillors to six- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seigo Kitamura
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Ojika, Nagasaki and graduate of Waseda University, he ran unsuccessfully for the assembly of Nagasaki Prefecture in 1982 but became the assembly of Sasebo, Nagasaki is a Core cities of Japan, core city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is also the second largest city in Nagasaki Prefecture, after its capital, Nagasaki. On 1 June 2019, the city had an estimated population of 247,739 and a population de ... in the following year. In 1986 he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives as an independent. After having served in the assembly of Nagasaki Prefecture for four terms since 1987, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000 as an independent. He later joined the LDP. He serving as the Minister of State from 11 September 2019. References * External links Official websitei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagasaki 4th District
was a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It was located in western Nagasaki and consisted of the cities of Sasebo, Hirado, Matsuura and Saikai, as well as Kitamatsuura District. As of 2021, 250,004 eligible voters were registered in the district. List of Representatives Area Covered The district was redrawn 2 times between its creation in 1994 and its abolition, once in 2013 and once again in 2017. The district was abolished during redistricting in 2022 and the areas it covered as of 2022 were transferred to the 3rd district. Areas from 2017 - 2022 After the 2017 revisions, the areas covered by the district are as follows: * Sasebo (Excluding the Haiki, Mikawachi and Miya Branch Departments) * Hirado, Nagasaki * Matsuura, Nagasaki * Saikai, Nagasaki * Kitamatsuura District ** Saza, Nagasaki Due to the redrawing of the district borders, Ojika, Nagasaki was moved to the 3rd district, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiyoshi Adachi (politician)
Kiyoshi Adachi (born December 14, 1969, in Ōita Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese politician who served as a member of the House of Councillors of Japan from 2019 until his resignation in 2023 to run for Governor of Ōita Prefecture. He represented the Ōita at-large district as an independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independe .... He was a member of the Committee on Financial Affairs. References Members of the House of Councillors (Japan) 1969 births Living people People from Beppu, Ōita {{Japan-politician-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Ōita At-large District By-election
2023 Ōita at-large district by-election was held on 23 April 2023 because Kiyoshi Adachi resigned as a member of the House of Councillors. Background In 2019 election, Kiyoshi Adachi, an independent recommended by four opposition parties, including the Former CDP, defeated Yōsuke Isozaki, a current member of the House of Councillors belonging to the Liberal Democratic Party, and was elected for the first time in Ōita at-large district. Meanwhile, in the 2022 election, Shinya Adachi, a member of the opposition Democratic Party For the People and a current member of the Oita at-large district, lost to the ruling LDP candidate because of the division of the opposition camp. Adachi announced his candidacy for Ōita Prefecture gubernatorial election and resigned as a member of the House of Councillors on March 10, 2023. With Adachi's resignation, by-elections will be held on April 28, 2023, under the Election Law. The LDP has nominated Aki Shirasaka, the owner of Inaba, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinji Yoshida
Shinji Yoshida ( ja, 吉田 真次; born 6 July 1984)} is a Japanese politician. He has been a Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives since 2023. Yoshida was previously a three-term member of the Shimonoseki is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. With a population of 265,684, it is the largest city in Yamaguchi Prefecture and the fifth-largest city in the Chūgoku region. It is located at the southwestern tip of Honshu facing the Tsushim ... city council, serving as its 15th vice-chairman. References 1984 births Living people Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Members of the House of Representatives from Yamaguchi Prefecture People from Shimonoseki {{Japan-politician-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobuchiyo Kishi
is a Japanese politician serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 2023. He is the son of Nobuo Kishi, the nephew of Shinzo Abe, and the great-grandson of Nobusuke Kishi was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960. Known for his exploitative rule of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in Northeast China in the 1930s, Kishi was nicknamed the "Monster of the Sh� .... References 1991 births Living people Satō–Kishi–Abe family Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2021–2024 Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2024– {{Japan-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobuo Kishi
is a Japanese politician who serves as the Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for National Security Policy and Nuclear Disarmament Issues. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he previously served as Minister of Defense of Japan from September 2020 to August 2022. He is also a member of the House of Representatives, representing Yamaguchi’s 2nd District since 2012. He is the younger brother of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. Early life Nobuo is the third son of Shintaro Abe and Yoko Abe (née Kishi). He was born in Tokyo. Shortly after his birth, he was adopted by his maternal uncle, Seibu Oil chairman Nobukazu Kishi, who could not have children of his own. He did not know about his actual parentage, or his relationship with Shintaro Abe's other sons (Hironobu and Shinzo Abe), until he was preparing to enter university. Kishi spent the first decade of his life living in Tokyo with his grandfather, former prime minister Nobusuke Kishi. He graduated from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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