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Miyagi 2nd District (1947–1993)
Miyagi 2nd district is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located on the island of Honshu, in Miyagi Prefecture, and includes parts of the city of Sendai, the prefectural capital (the city is shared with District 2). As of 2020, the district was home to 454,848 constituents. The district is represented by Ken'ya Akiba of the Liberal Democratic Party. Seat Representatives Areas Covered Since it was formed in 1994 as a single member constituency, it has been made up of the following Areas: * Sendai is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, the largest city in the Tōhoku region. , the city had a population of 1,091,407 in 525,828 households, and is one of Japan's 20 designated cities. The city was founded in 1600 by the ''daimyō'' Date M ... ** Miyagino-ku ** Wakabayashi-ku ** Izumi-ku Election Results References Related {{Japan House of Representatives Districts Politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miyagi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Miyagi Prefecture has a population of 2,305,596 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Miyagi Prefecture borders Iwate Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefecture to the northwest, Yamagata Prefecture to the west, and Fukushima Prefecture to the south. Sendai is the capital and largest city of Miyagi Prefecture, and the largest city in the Tōhoku region, with other major cities including Ishinomaki, Ōsaki, and Tome. Miyagi Prefecture is located on Japan's eastern Pacific coast and bounded to the west by the Ōu Mountains, the longest mountain range in Japan, with 24% of its total land area being designated as Natural Parks. Miyagi Prefecture is home to Matsushima Islands, a group of islands ranked as one of the Three Views of Japan, near the town of Matsushima. On 7 April, 2011 the biggest earthquake in Japan occurred. History Miyagi Prefecture was formerly part of the province of Mutsu. 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miyagino-ku, Sendai
is the northeastern ward of the city Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. , the ward had a population of 196,086 and a population density of 3370 persons per km2 in 91322 households. The total area of the ward was . Geography Miyagino-ku is located on the coast, bordered by Sendai Bay on the Pacific Ocean to the east, and by the city of Tagajō to the north. Neighboring municipalities *Miyagi Prefecture **Aoba-ku, Sendai **Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai **Izumi-ku, Sendai ** Tomiya ** Tagajō ** Rifu ** Shichigahama History The area of present-day Miyagino-ku was part of ancient Mutsu Province, and has been settled since at least the Japanese Paleolithic period. The area was inhabited by the Emishi people, and came under the control of the Yamato dynasty during the late Nara period from their base at Tagajō. During the Heian period, the provincial capital of Mutsu Province was located near the vicinity of Iwakiri Station. The area was later controlled by the Northern Fujiwara clan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's New Party
The People's New Party (国民新党 ''Kokumin Shintō'', PNP) was a Japanese political party formed on August 17, 2005 in the aftermath of the defeat of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Japan Post privatisation bills which led to a snap election. On March 21, 2013 party leader Shozaburo Jimi announced that he was disbanding the party. History The Kokumin Shinto, originally headed by Shizuka Kamei, included former lower house speaker Tamisuke Watanuki, former Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lower house members Hisaoki Kamei, Tadahiro Matsushita, and House of Councillors members Kensei Hasegawa is a Japanese politician of the People's New Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kumagaya, Saitama and graduate of the University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public resea ... from the LDP and Tamura Hideaki from the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the main opposition. Most of the members of the Kokumin S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konno Higashi
Konno (written: 金野, 今野 or 紺野) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese ski jumper *, Japanese idol and singer *, Japanese politician *Ford Konno (born 1933), American swimmer *, Japanese video game designer *, Japanese voice actress *, Japanese basketball player *, Japanese judoka *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese actress *Mari Konno (born 1980), Japanese basketball player *, Japanese actress and essayist *, Japanese rugby union player *, Japanese table tennis player *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese women's footballer Fictional characters *, the main character of the anime film ''The Girl Who Leapt Through Time'' *, one of the main characters of the anime series ''Zombie Land Saga is an anime television series produced by MAPPA, Avex Pictures and Cygames. The series aired in Japan between October and December 2018. A second season titled ''Zombie Land Saga Revenge'' aired between April and June 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Japanese General Election
General elections were held in Japan on 16 December 2012. Voters gave the Liberal Democratic Party a landslide victory, ejecting the Democratic Party from power after three years. It was the fourth worst defeat suffered by a ruling party in Japanese history. Voting took place in all representatives' constituencies of Japan including proportional blocks, in order to appoint Members of Diet to seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. In July 2012, it was reported that the deputy prime minister Katsuya Okada had approached the Liberal Democratic Party to sound them out about dissolving the house of representatives and holding the election in January 2013. An agreement was reached in August to dissolve the Diet and hold early elections "shortly" following the passage of a bill to raise the national consumption tax. Some right-wing observers asserted that as the result of introducing the consumption tax to repay the Japanese publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroki Hayashi
is a Japanese animator and director associated with AIC. He is best known as the director of the first ''Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki'' OVA series and co-creator of '' El-Hazard''. Biography Hayashi got started in animation on '' ThunderCats'' and ''Silverhawks''. He joined AIC when he was 21 years old. His first anime was '' Gall Force'' in 1987. In 1988 he worked on the storyboard for the fourth OVA episode of ''Bubblegum Crisis'', along with Masaki Kajishima. His first directed title was ''Sol Bianca'' of which he would also be credited for the original concept in the second OVA. In his interview with AIC, he said that ''Sol Bianca'' was originally a game production proposal when it was brought to AIC; he thought it would make a good OVA, and created the story base for the series. His breakout title was with Kajishima as director and co-creator of the ''Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki'' OVA series. They wanted to create a series much like ''Gall Force'' and ''Bubblegum Crisis'' where there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Japanese General Election
General elections were held in Japan on 14 December 2014. Voting took place in all Representatives constituencies of Japan including proportional blocks to elect the members of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. As the cabinet resigns in the first post-election Diet session after a general House of Representatives election (Constitution, Article 70), the lower house election also led to a new election of the prime minister in the Diet, won by incumbent Shinzō Abe, and the appointment of a new cabinet (with some ministers re-appointed). The voter turnout in this election remains the lowest in Japanese history. Background In 2012, the Democratic Party government under Yoshihiko Noda decided to raise the Japanese consumption tax. This unpopular moved allowed the Liberal Democratic Party under Shinzo Abe to regain control of the Japanese government in the 2012 Japanese general election. Abe proceeded to implement a series of economic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party For Japanese Kokoro
The , officially the , was a Japanese political party. It was formed as the on 1 August 2014 by a group of Diet members led by Shintarō Ishihara. The party adopted its final name in December 2015, and ended up dissolving in November 2018. History Formation The Japan Restoration Party was formed in 2012 and was led by Tōru Hashimoto and Ishihara. In May 2014 Hashimoto and Ishihara announced that the party had agreed to split due to disagreement over a merger with another opposition party, the Unity Party. Ishihara's faction left the JRP to form the Party for Future Generations, which registered as a party on 1 August 2014. Takeo Hiranuma was chosen as the party's leader and he appointed Hiroshi Yamada as Secretary-General and Ishihara as chief advisor. Party for Future Generations (2014–2015) The party suffered a near-wipeout at the 47th general election in December 2014, collapsing from 19 seats in the House of Representatives to just two, with Hiranuma and party advisor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komeito
, formerly New Komeito and abbreviated NKP, is a conservative political party in Japan founded by lay members of the Buddhist Japanese new religious movement Soka Gakkai in 1964. Since 2012, it has served in government as the junior coalition partner of the Liberal Democratic Party. Natsuo Yamaguchi has been the president of the party since 8 September 2009 and currently serves as a member of the House of Councillors (the upper house) in the National Diet, the Japanese national legislature (elected in the 2019 Japanese House of Councillors election, constituency is Tokyo at-large district). After the 2012 Japanese general election, the party held 31 seats in the lower house and 19 seats in the upper house. The number of lower house seats increased to 35 after the 2014 Japanese general election and to 25 seats in the upper house after winning 14 in the 2016 general election. In the 2017 Tokyo prefectural election, the party garnered a total of 23 seats, up one from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Japanese General Election
General elections were held in Japan on 22 October 2017. Voting took place in all Representatives constituencies of Japan – 289 single-member districts and eleven proportional blocks – in order to appoint all 465 members (down from 475) of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the then 707-member bicameral National Diet of Japan. Incumbent Prime Minister Shinzō Abe's governing coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Komeito party retained their seats in signs of what was perceived as weak opposition. The PM won his fourth term in office and held on to the two-thirds supermajority in order to implement policies on revising the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. The snap elections were called in the midst of the North Korea missile threat and with the largest opposition party, the Democratic Party, in disarray. Just hours before Abe's announcement of the snap election on 25 September, Governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike launche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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