Nobuto Hosaka

Nobuto Hosaka (Japanese保 坂 展 人, Hosaka Nobuto; * November 26, 1955 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture) is a Japanese politician and was the Social Democratic Party ( SDP) 1996-2003 and 2005-2009 the Shūgiin, the lower house the national Parliament to.

Hosaka was already active in his school days in National Left student organizations, the Shinjuku High School of Tokyo ( Tōkyō-to - ritsu Shinjuku Koto Gakko ) Prefecture, he left without a degree. In the 1980s he worked as an education journalist and campaigned for anti-authoritarian forms of education.

In the 1996 election Shūgiin Hosaka ran simultaneously in a single constituency Tokyo 22, he knocked off lost to fifth place, and the newly created proportional representation for the SDP in the block Tokyo. Since he was alone put on list number one, he received the single seat, which the Social Democrats won in the block Tokyo. There he was in 2000 when he lost the electoral district of Tokyo 6, and again re-elected in 2005, when the SDP would have actually received no mandate in the block Tokyo, but won a seat because the Liberal Democratic Party had nominated too few candidates. In 2009 Shūgiin - election, he again changed the constituency and entered in the 8th constituency against Nobuteru Ishihara, the son of the governor of Tokyo, to, subject to increase by around 30,000 votes. Since the SDP remained without proportional representation mandate, he resigned from the Parliament. In his time as an MP, he was also a member of the Judiciary Committee and Secretary General of the Parliamentary Group for the Abolition of the death penalty by Shizuka Kamei.

In the 2010 election Sangiin Hosaka tried for country-wide proportional to the change in the national House of Lords, received nearly 70,000 preference votes, reaching the Rank 3 - the SDP but won only two of proportional representation seats. In the unified regional elections in April 2011, he was from a field of five candidates for mayor of Setagaya Ward, the most populous community of the Tokyo Prefecture, was elected.