1. Toshihiro Nikai is a former Japanese politician for the Liberal Democratic Party and the leader of the LDP Shisuikai faction, who served as the Secretary-General of the LDP from 2016 to 2021.
16 Facts About Toshihiro Nikai
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Toshihiro Nikai was previously the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry.
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Toshihiro Nikai is widely considered to be "Japan's most pro-China lawmaker".
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Toshihiro Nikai has been criticized for misogynistic views expressed in the past, and caused controversy when he invited women to "look, but not talk" at key party meetings.
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Toshihiro Nikai's father was an assemblyman in the Wakayama Prefectural Assembly who had little time for his son; his mother Kikue was the daughter of a physician and, unusual for that time for a woman in Japan, was a physician herself.
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Toshihiro Nikai initially attended Inahara Elementary School, but at the end of WWII, he transferred to Gobo Elementary School.
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Toshihiro Nikai immediately entered politics, working as secretary for Saburo Endo, a Diet member from Shizuoka who was serving as the Minister of Construction.
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Toshihiro Nikai was elected to the House of Representatives in 1983.
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Toshihiro Nikai was a member of Noboru Takeshita's faction within the Liberal Democratic Party, but left the party in 1993 to join the Japan Renewal Party.
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Toshihiro Nikai was later a member of the Liberal Party, Conservative Party, and New Conservative Party, independent parties in coalition with the LDP.
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Later, under Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, Toshihiro Nikai was returned to the post of Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry on 1 August 2008.
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Toshihiro Nikai is known to have strong ties with Chinese leaders and accompanied relief supplies to Sichuan after the earthquake there in June 2008.
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Toshihiro Nikai was appointed LDP Secretary General by party president Shinzo Abe in August 2016.
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Toshihiro Nikai assumed political responsibility for the scandal after Shisuikai failed to declare 35.26 million yen in revenues from ticket sales of its fundraising parties from 2017 to 2022.
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Toshihiro Nikai thus retired when the House was dissolved in October 2024.
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Because, Toshihiro Nikai was a second side of Masumi Esaki, the father of Tetsuma.