Koya Nishikawa Explained

Koya Nishikawa
Native Name Lang:ja
Office:Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Primeminister:Shinzo Abe
Term Start:3 September 2014
Term End:23 February 2015
Predecessor:Yoshimasa Hayashi
Successor:Yoshimasa Hayashi
Office1:Member of the House of Representatives
Term Start1:19 December 2012
Term End1:28 September 2017
Constituency1:Kita-Kantō PR (2014-2017)
Tochigi-2nd (2012-2014)
Term Start2:21 October 1996
Term End2:21 July 2009
Successor2:Akio Fukuda
Constituency2:Kita-Kantō PR (2003-2009)
Tochigi-2nd (1996-2003)
Birth Date:26 December 1942
Birth Place:Ujiie, Tochigi (now Sakura, Tochigi), Japan
Alma Mater:Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Shioya District, Tochigi he attended Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology as both undergraduate and graduate students. After college, he worked at the government Tochigi Prefecture from 1967 to 1978. He was elected to the assembly of Tochigi Prefecture for the first time in 1979 and then to the Diet for the first time in 1996.

On 9 December 2020, he resigned as the special adviser to the Cabinet after being involved in a bribery scandal corresponding to a boating trip hosted by a former head of a major egg farm, who was involved in a separate bribery case.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Cabinet adviser Nishikawa resigns following shady boating trip. Japan Today. Tokyo, Japan. 9 December 2020. 10 December 2020.