Tomohiro Ishikawa

Tomohiro Ishikawa (Japanese石川 知 裕, Tomohiro Ishikawa, born June 18, 1973 in Ashoro, County Ashoro, Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese politician of the New Party Daichi and former deputy in Shūgiin, the lower house. He was most recently attached Member. By 2010, he had the Democratic Party belongs, until he had to leave the party because of the donations scandal surrounding former party leader Ichiro Ozawa.

Ishikawa, a graduate of Waseda University, worked before graduating in 1996 in the office of Ichirō Ozawa and was then the secretary. In the 2005 election Shūgiin Ishikawa candidate himself for the Democratic Party, the Ozawa now belonged, in the 11th constituency Hokkaidō, but lost Shoichi Nakagawa. On the proportional representation list Hokkaidō Democratic Ishikawa won the first place among the candidates not elected and was founded in 2007 after the resignation of Satoshi Arai for the gubernatorial election in Hokkaido as substitutes deputy. In 2009 he was able to beat Nakagawa in his constituency with 30,000 votes and defended his mandate.

In January 2010, Ishikawa was arrested along with two other secretaries Ozawa during the scandal over a land purchase by Ozawa's supporters organization Rikuzankai in the course of the investigation the District Attorney Tokyo. 400 million yen, which had provided Ozawa himself and used the Rikuzankai for a land purchase in Setagaya, were not been accounted for in reports of Ozawa's political funds, had been responsible for their leadership Ishikawa. The prosecution alleged that parts of the sum of a construction company came, that bid for a tender of Isawa Dam in Ozawa's home constituency in Iwate Prefecture. In February 2010, the prosecutor said she would accuse Ishikawa. Ishikawa was released on bail and left a few weeks later, the fraction of the Democratic Party.

2011, Ishikawa joined the Shinto Daichi. For this he lost in the 2012 election Shūgiin his constituency to Yuko Nakagawa, wife of Shoichi Nakagawa, but won in the proportional representation in Hokkaidō, the only Daichi mandate. In May 2013 he resigned. As substitutes for the New Party Daichi Takako Suzuki followed him.