Teruhiko Mashiko

Teruhiko Mashiko (Japanese増 子 辉 彦, Teruhiko Mashiko, born October 8, 1947 in Kōriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party (DPJ ) and member of the Sangiin, the House of Lords, for Fukushima.

Mashiko, a graduate of Waseda University, in 1983 elected for Kōriyma the prefecture Fukushima Parliament. He belonged to the faction of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) to. First introduced in 1986, he ran for Shūgiin, the National House of Commons. In the second attempt, in 1990, he won as an independent candidate in the first constituency Fukushima ( 4 seats) with the highest share of the vote a mandate. After his re-election in 1993 - as LDP candidate now with the third highest share of the vote - he left the party again in 1994 and joined the Shinto Mirai ( " Future New Party " ), which later became the Shinshinto. Under the new electoral law Mashiko was voted out in 1996 and joined the Democratic Party in 1998. From 2003 to 2005 he was on the proportional representation block a third time at the Shūgiin.

In the by-election in Fukushima in April 2007 for the Sangiin seat of Yuhei Satō (DPJ ), who had resigned for the gubernatorial election, Mashiko could ( with the support of SDP and the New People's Party) hold the seat for the Democratic Party. In Sangiin he belonged to, among others, the Committee on Economic, Trade and Industry.