Born:
December 28, 1942, Osaka Prefecture
Education:
1967 Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto), College of Law,
Evening Course
Career:
1963 joined the Japanese Communist Party (JCP)
1964 librarian, Ryukoku University Library (Kyoto)
formed the first workers' union in Ryukoku
University
Secretary General, the above union
1971 full-time official, JCP
1988 Chair, Kyoto Prefectural Committee, JCP
1994 member, Standing Executive Committee, JCP
1998 first elected to the House of Councillors
(Major posts in a political party)
2000 Head of the JCP Secretariat
2014 Vice-Chairperson of the Executive Committee, JCP
(as of July 30,2020)