Shigeo Kitamura
{{short description|Japanese politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Shigeo Kitamura
| native_name = {{nobold|北村 茂男}}
| native_name_lang = ja
| image = Shigeo Kitamura.jpg
| image_size = 220px
| caption = Official portrait, 2012
| office = Member of the House of Representatives
| constituency = Ishikawa 3rd (2005–2009; 2012–2017)
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu PR (2009–2012)
| term_start = 11 September 2005
| term_end = 28 September 2017
| predecessor = Riki Kawara
| successor = Shoji Nishida
| office1 = Speaker of the Ishikawa Prefectural Assembly
| term_start1 = 9 September 1994
| term_end1 = 29 April 1995
| predecessor1 =
| successor1 =
| office2 = Member of the Ishikawa Prefectural Assembly
| constituency2 = Wajima City
| term_start2 = 30 April 1983
| term_end2 = 25 August 2005
| predecessor2 =
| successor2 =
| constituency3 = Wajima City
| term_start3 = 30 April 1975
| term_end3 = 29 April 1979
| predecessor3 =
| successor3 =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|11|8|df=y}}
| birth_place = Wajima, Ishikawa, Japan
| death_date =
| death_place =
| relatives = Takuo Komori (son-in-law)
| alma_mater = Meiji University
| party = Liberal Democratic
| otherparty =
}}
{{nihongo|Shigeo Kitamura|北村 茂男|Kitamura Shigeo|extra=born November 8, 1945}} is a retired Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
Political career
A native of Wajima, Ishikawa and graduate of Meiji University, Kitamura was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2005 after having served in the assembly of Ishikawa Prefecture for seven terms since 1975.
His profile on the LDP website:[http://www.jimin.jp/english/profile/members/114681.html jimin.jp/english/profile/members/114681.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008071929/https://www.jimin.jp/english/profile/members/114681.html |date=2017-10-08 }} - retrieved Nov 19, 2014
- Member, Ishikawa Prefectural Assembly
- Deputy Chairman, General Council of LDP
- Deputy Chairman, Diet Affairs Committee of LDP
- Acting Director, Cabinet Division of LDP
- Chairman, Committee on Organizations Involved with NPO and NGO of LDP
- Parliamentary Secretary of Internal Affairs and Communications
- Parliamentary Secretary of Cabinet Office
- Member of Japan-US Parliamentary Association, Japan-South Korea Parliamentary Association, Japan-Taiwan Parliamentary Commission
Positions
A member of the Diet groups affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi,Nippon Kaigi website and to the fundamentalist league Shintō Seiji Renmei, Kitamura is in favor of the revision of the Constitution, of the right to collective-self-defense, of the change from a bicameral to a unicameral legislative system, of nuclear power plants, of relocating the US base in Okinawa, and against the participation of Japan to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and against a nuclear-armed Japan[http://senkyo.mainichi.jp/46shu/kaihyo_area_meikan.html?mid=A17003002002 Profile on Mainichi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529202933/http://senkyo.mainichi.jp/46shu/kaihyo_area_meikan.html?mid=A17003002002 |date=2018-05-29 }} - retrieved Nov 19, 2014
References
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- {{cite news |url=http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/diet/profile/0000/00000140.html |script-title=ja:政治家情報 〜北村 茂男〜 |script-newspaper=ja:ザ･選挙 |newspaper=JANJAN |accessdate=2007-10-20 |language=ja}}
External links
- [http://kitamura-shigeo.com/ Official website] in Japanese.
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Category:People from Wajima, Ishikawa
Category:Politicians from Ishikawa Prefecture
Category:Members of Nippon Kaigi
Category:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2005–2009
Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2009–2012
Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2012–2014
Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2014–2017