Akira Koike

Akira Koike (Japanese小池 晃, Koike Akira, born June 9, 1960 in Setagaya, Tokyo Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Japanese Communist Party ( JCP ) and a deputy in Sangiin, the upper house of the Japanese parliament.

Koike studied at the medical faculty of Tohoku University and was active in student associations, 1985, he was Vice Chairman of Zengakuren. After graduating in 1987 he worked for the Kembun - Azusawa Hospital in Itabashi, 1997 for Yoyogi Hospital workers Sickcare Tokyo ( Tōkyō Rōdōsha Iryōkai ). In 1998 he became director ( Riji ) of the umbrella organization Min'iren (English Japan Federation of Democratic Medical Institutions ).

Koike 2004 became a member of the Central Committee of the CPY and became Chairman of the Policy Research Council. When Sangiin - election in the same year, he ran through the JCP proportional representation list, received the second highest number of votes behind Secretary General Tadayoshi Ichida and was elected for six years. In 2007 he also took over the presidency of the KPJ Group in Sangiin. In 2010, he joined the Tokyo Prefecture ( five seats), but only received 552.187 votes, thereby losing the fifth place at Kota Matsuda ( Minna no Tō ).

In February 2011, he declared his candidacy in the gubernatorial election in the Prefecture of Tokyo in April 2011., With ten percent of the vote, he reached the fourth place, he was at a slightly higher turnout about the same number of votes as JCP candidate Manzo Yoshida, former mayor of Adachi, in the gubernatorial election in 2007.

In the 2013 election Koike ran again for the Sangiin, but now back in the nationwide proportional representation. He received 134 325 preference vote and list position 1 and pulled a for a third term in Sangiin.