Yoshio Nagawa | |
Office1: | 20th Chairman of the Hokkaido Prefectural Assembly |
Office: | Member of House of Councillors |
Native Name: | 中川 義雄 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Predecessor: | Hisashi Kazama Noriyuki Nakao Naoki Minezaki |
Termstart: | 30 July 1998 |
Termend: | 11 July 2010 |
is a Japanese politician of the Sunrise Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Hiroo District, Hokkaidō and dropout of Kanagawa University, he was elected to the House of Councillors as a candidate for the Liberal
Democratic Party for the first time in 1998 after serving in the Hokkaido Prefectural Assembly for five terms. He is the younger brother of Ichirō Nakagawa.
He joined the Sunrise Party of Japan on April 10, 2010, but lost in House of Councillors election.