Kane Aki

Kane Aki 	Kane Aki
阿木 兼寛 	阿木 兼寛
 	
1st Leader of the Tojiman Independence Party 	1st Leader of the Tojiman Independence Party
Incumbent 	Incumbent
In office 	In office
20 June 2006 	20 June 2006
Deputy 	Ichiro YamadaShigenobu MatsumaraTara Takuya
Preceded by 	Party founded
3rd Leader of Tojima First 	3rd Leader of Tojima First
In office 	In office
31 May 2002 – 27 February 2003 	31 May 2002 – 27 February 2003
Deputy 	Kei Tabata
Preceded by 	Shigenobu Matsumara
Succeeded by 	Kei Tabata
Leader of the Tojima Restoration Party 	Leader of the Tojima Restoration Party
In office 	In office
1 September 1993 – 16 March 1997 	1 September 1993 – 16 March 1997
Deputy 	None
Preceded by 	Party founded
Succeeded by 	Party dissolved
Member of the Tojima Prefectural Assemblyfor Sazanami North	Member of the Tojima Prefectural Assemblyfor Sazanami North
In office 	In office
15 May 1982 – 25 May 2002 	15 May 1982 – 25 May 2002
Preceded by 	Thomas Takai
Succeeded by 	Seat abolished
Personal details 	Personal details
Born 	Kanehiro Aki24 April 1949 (age )Tokyo, Japan
Political party 	Tojiman Independence (since 2006)Tojima First (1998–2006)Restoration (1993–1997)Independent (1981–1993, 1997–1998)TPP (before 1981)
Spouse(s) 	Noriko Aki (m. 1979, d. 2020)
Children 	3, including Miyako
Alma mater 	Tohoku UniversityUniversity of Tojima
Kanehiro "Kane" Aki (/ˈkɑːneɪ/; Japanese: 阿木 兼寛; Hepburn: Aki Kanehiro; born 24 April 1949) is a Japanese-born Enderronian politician. He is the leader and founder of the Tojiman Independence Party, and was previously the leader of Tojima First from 2002 to 2003 and the Tojima Restoration Party from 1993 to 1997. He served in the Tojima Prefectural Assembly from 1982 to 2002.
Aki has been one of the most prominent pro-independence Tojiman politicians since the 1980s. He began his political career in the 1970s in the Tojima People's Party, serving as a political advisor and campaign volunteer. He was the party's candidate for the seat of Nishihama in the 1978 election, but failed to be elected among the Social Democratic Party's landslide win that year. The TPP became increasingly non-localist over the next few years, leading Aki to resign from the party in 1981. At the 1982 election he was elected as an independent candidate in the seat of Sazanami North. While in the Prefectural Assembly, he became the leading voice for Tojiman independence and right-wing populist policies, and maintained a policy of only speaking Japanese on the floor of the assembly.
In 1993, Aki founded the Tojima Restoration Party, and served as its sole MP until it was disbanded in 1997 for failing to correctly file party registration paperwork. He was re-elected at the 1998 election as an independent, following which he helped found Tojima First and became the party's first MP. He failed to be re-elected at the 2002 election after his seat of Sazanami North was abolished in a redistribution. He then unsuccessfully attempted to enter federal politics at the federal election later that year.
Since losing his seat in the Prefectural Assembly in 2002, Aki has been a perennial candidate in Tojiman elections. In total, he has been in a candidate in six gubernatorial elections (1990, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022). His best result was in 2010, in which the Tojima Independence Party ticket garnered 6.7 percent of the popular vote.