Tsuyoshi Takagi and Tadayoshi Nagashima 20151211

was a Japanese

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, serving in the

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in the

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(national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Career

Born in the village of Yamakoshi, Niigata (now part of the city of Nagaoka), Nagashima graduated the

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. He served as mayor of his hometown Yamakoshi between 2000 and 2005, the year the village, severely damaged by an

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in 2004, merged with the city of Nagaoka. Nagashima was elected to the Diet for the first time in 2005. According to the LDP website, he held the following positions: *Headman, Yamakoshi Village *Member, Diet Affairs Committee of LDP *Deputy Director Secretary, Special Committee on Disasters of LDP *Minister of State for Disaster Management of LDP's Shadow Cabinet *Vice-Chairman, Committee on Judicial Affairs and Local Autonomous Organizations of LDP *Parliamentary Secretary of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries *Parliamentary Secretary for Reconstruction

Positions

Nagashima was affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby

Nippon Kaigi The Right side up ...

, and a member of the following right-wing groups in the Diet: *Nippon Kaigi Diet discussion group (日本会議国会議員懇談会 - Nippon kaigi kokkai giin kondankai) *Diet Celebration League of the 20th Anniversary of His Majesty The Emperor's Accession to the Throne (天皇陛下御即位二十年奉祝国会議員連盟) *Conference of parliamentarians on the Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership (神道政治連盟国会議員懇談会 - Shinto Seiji Renmei Kokkai Giin Kondankai) - NB: SAS a.k.a. Sinseiren, Shinto Political League Nagashima gave the following answers to the questionnaire submitted by Mainichi to parliamentarians in 2014:Mainichi 2014
senkyo.mainichi.jp/47shu/meikan.html?mid=A15005002002
/ref> *no answer regarding the revision of the

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*no answer regarding the right of collective self-defense *no answer regarding nuclear plants *against visits of a Prime Minister to the

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*in favor of the revision of the

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*no answer regarding the revision of the

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*no answer regarding laws preventing hate speech *no answer regarding question whether

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is a burden for

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*no answer regarding the Special Secrecy Law *no answer regarding teaching 'morality' in school

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nagashima, Tadayoshi 1951 births 2017 deaths Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Mayors of places in Japan Koizumi Children People from Nagaoka, Niigata Toyo University alumni Members of Nippon Kaigi Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians