Yoshio Urushibara

Yoshio Urushibara
漆原 良夫
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
21 October 1996 – 28 September 2017
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byMasataka Ōta
ConstituencyHokuriku-Shin'etsu PR
Personal details
Born (1944-11-18) 18 November 1944
Tsubame, Niigata, Japan
PartyKomeito
Other political
affiliations
NFP (1996–1998)
Alma materMeiji University

Yoshio Urushibara (漆原 良夫, Urushibara Yoshio; born 18 November 1944) is a Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).

Early life

Urushibara is a native of Tsubame, Niigata and graduate of Meiji University. He passed the Japanese bar examination during his final year of university, and was admitted to the bar in 1971.[1]

Political career

He was elected for the first time in 1996 as a member of the New Frontier Party, which later split into several parties including the New Komeito Party. He was re-elected in 2000, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2012 and 2014.[1]

As of 2017, he serves as chairman of the New Komeito Central Committee, in which capacity he works closely with LDP Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai to manage the ruling coalition.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "ごあいさつ・プロフィール／衆議院議員・漆原良夫". urusan.net (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Ruling coalition reshuffle? | The Japan Times". The Japan Times. Retrieved 24 April 2017.


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