Hiroshi Yamada

Yamada is a graduate of Kyoto University (with a major in law).

In April 2010 Yamada became chairman of the Spirit of Japan Party, which he founded for the Upper House election, with Hiroshi Nakada, the former mayor of Yokohama, and Hiroshi Saitō, the former governor of Yamagata.

Yamada lost his seat in the Diet in the December 2014 general election.

In September 2015 it was announced that he would contest the 2016 House of Councillors election as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

[2] Like Ishihara, Yamada is affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi.