Tomohiro Ishikawa

Tomohiro Ishikawa
Tomohiro Ishikawa
	石川知裕
Member of the House of Representatives
	In office; 23 September 2007 – 21 May 2013
Preceded by	Shōichi Nakagawa
Succeeded by	Yūko Nakagawa
Constituency	Hokkaido-11th (2009–2012); Hokkaido PR (2007–2009, 2012–2013);
Personal details
Born	18 June 1973; Ashoro, Hokkaido, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Political party	CDP
Other political; affiliations	DP (2016-2017); DPJ (until 2010, 2015–2016, merger); NPD (2011–2013); Independent (2010-2011, 2013-2015);
Spouse(s)	Kaori Ishikawa (2011–present)
Children	2[1]
Alma mater	Waseda University; Hosei University;
Website	Official website

Tomohiro Ishikawa (石川知裕, Ishikawa Tomohiro, born June 18, 1973) is a former member of the House of Representatives elected to the 11th District of Hokkaidō, Japan.[2] He is a former secretary to former Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) Secretary-General Ichirō Ozawa. After Satoshi Arai's candidacy to the 2007 Hokkaido gubernatorial election, Ishikawa took up the seat vacated by Arai through the PR list. In the 2009 DPJ landslide, Ishikawa famously unseated then-incumbent Finance Minister Shōichi Nakagawa.

In 2010, Ishikawa was embroiled in a political funding scandal involving Ichirō Ozawa. He allegedly failed to record 400 million yen he and other secretaries borrowed from Ozawa to buy land in Tokyo.[3] After he was indicted in February 2010, he resigned from the DPJ and sat in the House as an independent. Ishikawa retained his seat during the appeal process. He joined New Party Daichi in 2011 and contested the 2012 election under their banner. He was defeated in his seat by Shōichi Nakagawa's wife Yūko, but was returned to the House though the NPD's PR list. His legal issues led him to resign from his seat in May 2013, when he decided to fully focus on his appeal to the Supreme Court. He was replaced by NPD leader Muneo Suzuki's daughter Takako, who was next in line in the PR list.[4] His appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court in September 2014 and he was sentenced to 2 years in prison, suspended for 3 years.[5]

Ishikawa has limited involvement in politics since then. He returned to the DPJ in 2015. He also completed a master's course in Hosei University in 2016, majoring in political science. As part of the degree, he conducted a comparative study between the New Labour reforms of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the DPJ.

In the 2017 election, Ishikawa's wife Kaori was elected to his former 11th district seat, defeating Yūko Nakagawa.

References

Rich, Motoko (21 October 2017). "Japan Ranks Low in Female Lawmakers. An Election Won't Change That". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 November 2017.
Yahoo!みんなの政治 - 石川知裕 - 基本情報 (in Japanese). Yahoo! Japan. Retrieved May 26, 2010.
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-14. Retrieved 2010-05-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Kyodo News (17 May 2013). "Ex-Ozawa aide convicted over fund scandal to quit as Diet member". Japan Times. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
「再審請求を準備」　国政復帰に意欲　石川知裕氏会見 (in Japanese). Tokachi Mainichi Shimbun. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2017.

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[1] Rich, Motoko (21 October 2017). "Japan Ranks Low in Female Lawmakers. An Election Won't Change That". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 November 2017.

[2] Yahoo!みんなの政治 - 石川知裕 - 基本情報 (in Japanese). Yahoo! Japan. Retrieved May 26, 2010.

[3] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-14. Retrieved 2010-05-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] Kyodo News (17 May 2013). "Ex-Ozawa aide convicted over fund scandal to quit as Diet member". Japan Times. Retrieved 10 December 2017.

[5] 「再審請求を準備」　国政復帰に意欲　石川知裕氏会見 (in Japanese). Tokachi Mainichi Shimbun. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2017.