Toshio Ogawa

Toshio Ogawa
Toshio Ogawa
小川敏夫
	Official portrait, 2011
Vice President of the House of Councillors
	In office; 1 August 2019 – 3 August 2022
President	Akiko Santō
Preceded by	Akira Gunji
Succeeded by	Hiroyuki Nagahama
Minister of Justice
	In office; 13 January 2012 – 4 June 2012
Prime Minister	Yoshihiko Noda
Preceded by	Hideo Hiraoka
Succeeded by	Makoto Taki
Member of House of Councillors
	In office; 26 July 1998 – 25 July 2022
Constituency	Tokyo at-large
Personal details
Born	18 March 1948 (age 76); Tokyo, Japan
Political party	CDP (since 2018)
Other political; affiliations	NPS (1996); DP 1996 (1996–1998); DPJ (1998–2016); DP 2016 (2016–2018);
Alma mater	Rikkyo University

Toshio Ogawa (小川敏夫, Ogawa Toshio, born 18 March 1948) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). Ogawa is a former Minister of Justice. A native of Nerima, Tokyo, and a graduate of Rikkyo University, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1998 after working as a prosecutor.

Political career

Toshio Ogawa (at the Central Government Building No.6 on January 13, 2012)

In 1996, he ran for a lower house seat with support from the Democratic Party of Japan, but failed. In 1998, he ran for an upper house election, and was elected. In 2004, he again got elected in an upper house election. In 2012, he was appointed justice minister.^[1]

He was re-elected in 2004, 2010 and 2016, and is currently^[when?] the longest serving councillor from Tokyo. When the Democratic Party merged with Kibō no Tō to form the DPP in May 2018, Ogawa did not join the new party and decided to join the CDP instead.^[2]

References

^ Matsutani, Minoru (1 February 2012). "Justice minister feels signing off on hangings just part of job description". Japan Times. p. 3.
^ 国民民主党６２人参加「野党第１党」に届かず (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun. 7 May 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018.

External links

(in Japanese) Official website

House of Councillors
Preceded by Toshiko Hamayotsu Kōichirō Ueda Kensaku Morita Kiyoko Ono	Councillor from Tokyo 26 July 1998–present Served alongside: Toshiko Hamayotsu, Miyo Inoue, Atsuo Nakamura, Masaharu Nakagawa, Renhō Murata, Yūji Sawa	Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Kōichi Katō	Senior Vice Minister of Justice 2010–2011	Succeeded by Makoto Taki
Preceded by Hideo Hiraoka	Minister of Justice 13 January – 4 June 2012	Succeeded by Makoto Taki

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[1] Matsutani, Minoru (1 February 2012). "Justice minister feels signing off on hangings just part of job description". Japan Times. p. 3.

[2] 国民民主党６２人参加「野党第１党」に届かず (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun. 7 May 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018.

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