Ikuo Yamahana

Ikuo Yamahana (Japanese: 山花 郁夫, Hepburn: Yamahana Ikuo, born January 18, 1967) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, a member of House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Yamahana served as Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Naoto Kan and as Deputy Justice Minister in the cabinet of Yoshihiko Noda.

Ikuo Yamahana
山花 郁夫
Member of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
October 23, 2017
ConstituencyTokyo PR
In office
August 30, 2009 – November 16, 2012
Preceded byTatsuya Itō
Succeeded byTatsuya Itō
ConstituencyTokyo-22nd
In office
June 26, 2000 – August 8, 2005
Preceded byTatsuya Itō
Succeeded byTatsuya Itō
ConstituencyTokyo-22nd
Personal details
Born
山花 郁夫 (Ikuo Yamahana)

(1967-01-18) January 18, 1967
Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan
Political partyConstitutional Democratic
Other political
affiliations
  • DP (2016–2017, split)
  • DPJ (1998–2016, merger)
Alma materRitsumeikan University

Yamahana is the son of the former chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party, Sadao Yamahana. He started his political career as a secretary to then-Diet member and future Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.

(Left to right) Banri Kaieda, Yamahana and Takeshi Nakane talking with Yukiya Amano, Director General of the IAEA, at the Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety in Vienna, June 2011.

Yamahana has only run in Tokyo's 22nd district for all his parliamentary career and represented it several times. He lost his seat twice in the LDP landslides of 2005 and 2012. After 2 unsuccessful runs to regain his seat in 2012 and 2014, Yamahana managed to return to the Diet in the 2017 election via the Tokyo proportional representation block. While losing the race for the Tokyo-22nd seat, he gained enough votes to be returned through the CDP's list in the Tokyo block.[1]

References
  1. 小選挙区開票速報：東京都（定数25） (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved January 3, 2018.


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