Japanese politician (born 1956)
Yukihiko Akutsu (阿久津 幸彦 Akutsu Yukihiko is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).[ 1]
Biography
With Satoshi Furukawa and Koichiro Genba (on 25 February 2011) A native of Tokyo and graduate of George Washington University , he started his career in 1993 working for the political campaign of the New Party Sakigake alongside future Prime Minister Naoto Kan . Akutsu joined the formation of the Democratic Party of Japan in 1996. He ran under their ticket in the 1996 general election as a candidate for Tokyo 24th district , but lost. In 2000 , he ran and won the race for Tokyo-24th and entered the Diet for the first time. He lost the district race in the 2003 election , but was re-elected through the Tokyo proportional representation block . In 2005, he ran as candidate for the Tokyo prefectural elections but lost. In 2009 , he returned to the Diet but lost his seat in the 2012 elections .
After running unsuccessfully in 2014 , Akutsu was elected back to the Diet after being elected from the CDP list for the Tohoku PR block in the 2017 . He also currently serves as the deputy secretary-general of the party.
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