15 Facts About Sohei Kamiya

Sohei Kamiya is a Japanese politician who is the founder and Secretary General of the right-wing populist political party Sanseito.

Sohei Kamiya's party has been described as a cult by his political opponents.

Sohei Kamiya then entered Kansai University's Faculty of Letters, Department of History and Geography.

Sohei Kamiya moved to Suita, Osaka after graduating from the same university in 2001.

Sohei Kamiya became a lecturer at Fukui Prefectural Wakasa Higashi High School.

Sohei Kamiya was inaugurated as a councilor on May 27,2007.

Sohei Kamiya founded the regional political party Suita Shinsengai in the same year.

In 2011, Sohei Kamiya was re-elected as a member of the Suita City Council.

Sohei Kamiya was then elected as the Vice Chairman of the City Council.

In November 2012, Sohei Kamiya joined the Liberal Democratic Party and became the head of the party's Osaka 13th district branch, replacing House of Representatives member Akira Nishino.

Sohei Kamiya then resigned from his seat in the Suita City Council to run for the 2012 Japanese general election, with then-LDP President Shinzo Abe personally campaigning on behalf of Sohei Kamiya, but lost to Koichi Nishino from the Japan Restoration Party.

In 2013, Sohei Kamiya founded a YouTube channel named "ChGrandStrategy", promoting far-right politics, historical revisionism, and conspiracy theories.

On July 10,2022, Sohei Kamiya filed his candidacy for the 2022 House of Councillors election for the Proportional Representation Block and was elected.

On January 30,2023, five senior members of Sanseito, including Sohei Kamiya, were sued by the NHK Party on the grounds of fraud.

In 2017, Sohei Kamiya married Fumi Sohei Kamiya, a former staff member of his office while serving as Suita City Councilor.