Keiichi Ishii

Keiichi Ishii (Japanese石井 启 一, Keiichi Ishii; born March 20, 1958 in Toshima, Tokyo Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Kōmeitō and deputy in Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament, for the proportional representation block North Kantō.

Ishii attended the connected middle and high school of Waseda University, he then studied at the faculty of engineering of the University of Tokyo. After graduating in 1981, he became a civil servant in the Ministry of Construction. In 1992 he left the ministry and turned to politics.

In the 1993 election Shūgiin Ishii ran for the Kōmeitō in dreimandatigen constituency Tokyo 5 and was selected with the third highest share of votes: around 4,000 votes he ousted LDP incumbent Kōki Kobayashi to fourth place. After the electoral reform in 1994 he was a candidate on the proportional representation, first in Tokyo, since 2000 in Northern Kanto, and was re-elected six times in a row. In 2003 he was Secretary of the Treasury under the Koizumi cabinet 2. In the Kōmeitō he took from the 1990s higher positions in the party leadership a; 2000, and again in 2004 he was vice- chairman of the political Research, 2010, he was the successor of Tetsuo Saitō as chairman of the policy research council.