Gaku Hashimoto

Gaku Hashimoto (Japanese桥本 岳, Gaku Hashimoto; born February 5, 1974 in soya, Okayama Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( Nukaga faction ), and deputy in Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament, for the 4th constituency Okayama.

Hashimoto, the direct descendant of the House of Representatives and Minister Ryogo Hashimoto Ryutaro Hashimoto and studied at the Faculty of Environmental Information ( Kankyo - Joho - gakubu ) of Keio University. He completed graduate studies politics and media research at Keio Graduate School. He then worked from 1998 for the general Mitsubishi Research Institute ( Mitsubishi Sogo Kenkyujo ), a joint think tank several Mitsubishi companies.

In 2005 he left the company and was a candidate at the 2005 Shūgiin - election in the constituency Okayama 4 for the successor of his father. He was defeated by Democratic Michiyoshi Yunoki, but was able to win with a relatively narrow constituency defeat a proportional representation seat of the Liberal Democrats in Chūgoku. In 2009, he missed by a more thoroughgoing defeat the re-election by proportional representation block and retired from the Shūgiin from. In the statewide defeat of the Democrats in the 2012 election, Hashimoto - Shūgiin could for the first time prevail against Yunoki.