Shigeo Kitamura
Native name北村 茂男
Office
ConstituencyIshikawa 3rd (2005–2009)
PR block (2009–2012)
Ishikawa 3rd (2012–2017)
Term start11 September 2005
Term end28 September 2017
PredecessorRiki Kawara
SuccessorShoji Nishida
Office 1Speaker of the Ishikawa Prefectural Assembly
Term start 19 September 1994
Term end 129 April 1995
Office 2Member of the Ishikawa Prefectural Assembly
Constituency 2Wajima City
Term start 230 April 1983
Term end 225 August 2005
Constituency 3Wajima City
Term start 330 April 1975
Term end 329 April 1979
Birth date8 November 1945 (age 80)
Birth placeWajima, Ishikawa, Japan
RelativesTakuo Komori (son-in-law)
Alma materMeiji University
PartyLiberal Democratic

Shigeo Kitamura (北村 茂男, Kitamura Shigeo) 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:[1]

  • 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,[2] 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[3]

References

  1. ^ jimin.jp/english/profile/members/114681.html Archived 2017-10-08 at the Wayback Machine - retrieved Nov 19, 2014
  2. ^ Nippon Kaigi website
  3. ^ Profile on Mainichi Archived 2018-05-29 at the Wayback Machine - retrieved Nov 19, 2014