Seiji Osaka
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Seiji Ōsaka | |
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逢坂 誠二 | |
.jpg) Official portrait, 2011 | |
| Deputy Leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party | |
| Assumed office 30 November 2021 | |
| Leader | Kenta Izumi |
| Preceded by | Akira Nagatsuma |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| Assumed office 15 December 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Kazuo Maeda |
| Constituency | Hokkaido 8th |
| In office 12 September 2005 – 16 November 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Multi-member district |
| Succeeded by | Kazuo Maeda |
| Constituency | Hokkaido PR (2005–2009) Hokkaido 8th (2009–2012) Hokkaido 8th (2014-present) |
| Mayor of Niseko | |
| In office November 1994 – 29 August 2005 | |
| Preceded by | Tomio Watanabe |
| Succeeded by | Ryūichi Satō |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 April 1959 Niseko, Hokkaido, Japan |
| Political party | CDP (since 2017) |
| Other political affiliations | Independent (1994–2005) DPJ (2005–2016) DP (2016–2017) |
| Alma mater | Hokkaido University |
| Website | Official website |
Seiji Osaka (逢坂 誠二, Ōsaka Seiji, born April 24, 1959) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).[1]
Political career
[edit]Mayor of Niseko
[edit]Osaka ran for Mayor of Niseko, a ski resort area in Hokkaido, in the 1994 election, and held that position until he resigned in 2005 to run for national office in the House of Representatives.
House of Representatives
[edit]Osaka was first elected to the House of Representatives as a Hokkaido Proportional Representation candidate in 2005. In 2009 he was elected as the representative for Hokkaido's 8th district constituency, and served as such until he lost his seat in the 2012 election.
He regained his seat in Hokkaido’s 8th district in 2014 and is still the current representative as of the results of the 2024 election.
Osaka was a member of the Democratic Party. While he joined the CDP on the day it was formed, he ran on an independent ticket in the 2017 general election.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Opposition grills gov't over Kake vet school approval, calling it non-qualified". Mainichi Shimbun. 16 November 2017.
- ^ "CDP looking for allies; Koike won't step down; Maehara to quit". Asahi Shimbun. 24 October 2017. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
External links
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Media related to Seiji Osaka at Wikimedia Commons- Official website in Japanese.
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