Japan New Party
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Aioi, Hyōgo and graduate of Nihon University, he was elected to the House of Councilors for the first time in 1992 as a member of Morihiro Hosokawa's Japan New Party and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996.