Azuma Koshiishi

Azuma Koshiishi (Japanese舆 石 东, Koshiishi Azuma, born May 14, 1936 in Nirasaki, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party ( Minshutō ) and member of the Sangiin, the House of Lords, for Yamanashi. Within the party he belongs to Yokomichi group. Since 2013 he has been Vice President of Sangiin.

Koshiishi, graduate of the state Tanki Daigaku Tsuru ( " Short University Tsuru " ), worked as a primary school teacher. In the 1980s, he rose to the teachers' union in Yamanashi. From 1986 he was chairman of the trade union federation Rengo Yamanashi.

Since the election of 1990 was Koshiishi as the candidate of the Socialist Party of Japan for Yamanashi to the Shūgiin, the lower house. He was voted out of the newly created constituency Yamanashi 1 as a candidate of the new Democratic Party in 1996. In 1998 he was elected as an Independent for Yamanashi (one seat per election ) into Sangiin and 2004 now confirmed again for the Minshutō in office. In Sangiin he was from 2003 to 2004 Chairman of the Transport Committee. In 2010 he was re-elected by a narrow margin on the Liberal Democrat Noriko Miyagawa.

From 2004 Koshiishi Secretary ( kanjichō ), from 2006 to 2013 was then chairman of the Sangiin faction of the Democratic Party. The party executive he was deputy from 2007 to 2009 chairman of the party ( Daihyō Daiko ), 2011-2012 Secretary-General Yoshihiko Noda. Like most presidents and vice presidents he has since attached Member - After Sangiin - election in 2013, when the Democrats lost their status as the largest party after six years of the Liberal Democrats, Koshiishi was elected Vice President.