ARITA Yoshifu

• Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Tohoku Bloc (proportional representation), elected twice


• In-House Group: Centrist Reform Alliance
• Born: 1952, Kyoto
• Education:
• College of Economics, Ritsumeikan University

• Career:
• Member, House of Councillors (HC) (two terms)


• Freelance journalist
• - Covered issues related to:
• Exploitative spiritual business practices
• The Unification Church
• The 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack by Aum Shinrikyo
• North Korean abductions of Japanese nationals
• Television commentator
• - Appeared as a commentator on Nippon TV’s The Wide for 12 and a half years