Tadatomo Yoshida

Tadatomo Yoshida (Japanese吉田 忠 智, Yoshida Tadatomo; born March 7, 1956 in Usuki, Oita Prefecture) is a Japanese politician and proportional representation deputy in Sangiin, the upper house of the Japanese parliament. In October 2013 he was elected chairman of the Social Democratic Party ( SDP).

Yoshida became official in 1979 Prefecture Oita to his studies at the Faculty of Agriculture Kyushu University. In the public sector union Prefecture ( Oita kenshokurō ), a member association of Jichirō, he was Secretary General from 1991 to 1994 ( shokichō ). In 2000 he left the prefectural government and ran for a two- mandate election in constituency city Oita Prefecture successfully for Parliament. For the regular elections in 2003 and 2007, he was re-elected. In 2008 he was Secretary General of the Kenmin Club ( " Prefecture of Citizens Club " ), belong to the deputies, the DPJ and SDP are close to.

In April 2010, Yoshida resigned for a change in national policy. In the 2010 election he ran for Sangiin of proportional representation for the SDP and was elected with around 131,000 votes in 2nd place behind the party leader Mizuho Fukushima. In 2013 he became chairman of the SDP policy committee. After Fukushima resignation he was a candidate in the code for party chairmanship and sat out against the local politician Taiga Ishikawa by. He enters the office formally on the Land Conference ( Zenkoku daihyōsha kaigi ) on 26 October 2013.