Tadayoshi Nagashima

Tadayoshi Nagashima
長島 忠美
Official portrait, 2014
In office
11 September 2005 – 18 August 2017
Preceded byMulti-member district
Succeeded byHirohiko Izumida
ConstituencyPR block (2005–2012)
Niigata 5th (2012–2017)
Mayor of Yamakoshi
In office
31 March 2000 – 31 March 2005
Preceded byShogo Sakai
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Personal details
Born(1951-01-09)9 January 1951
Yamakoshi, Niigata, Japan
Died18 August 2017(2017-08-18) (aged 66)
Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan
PartyLiberal Democratic
EducationToyo University

Tadayoshi Nagashima (長島 忠美, Nagashima Tadayoshi; 9 January 1951 – 18 August 2017) was a Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Career

Nagashima (right) along with Tsuyoshi Takagi (center-left) in 2015

Born in the village of Yamakoshi, Niigata (now part of the city of Nagaoka), Nagashima graduated the Toyo University.

He served as mayor of his hometown Yamakoshi between 2000 and 2005, the year the village, severely damaged by an earthquake in 2004, merged with the city of Nagaoka.

Nagashima was elected to the Diet for the first time in 2005.

According to the LDP website, he held the following positions:

Positions

Nagashima was affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, and a member of the following right-wing groups in the Diet:

Nagashima gave the following answers to the questionnaire submitted by Mainichi to parliamentarians in 2014:

References

  1. ↑ "自民・長島忠美衆院議員が死去 旧山古志村の村長". 産経ニュース (in Japanese). 19 August 2017. Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  2. ↑ Nagashima Tadayoshi profile on LDP website: jimin.jp/english/profile/members/114720.html Archived 2014-12-08 at the Wayback Machine (retrieved Dec 10, 2014)
  3. ↑ Nippon Kaigi website
  4. ↑ Mainichi 2014: senkyo.mainichi.jp/47shu/meikan.html?mid=A15005002002 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine