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Japan House of Representatives constituency
Tokyo 8th district (東京都第8区, Tōkyō-to dai-hachiku or simply 東京8区, Tōkyō-hachiku ) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan . It is located in western part of former Tokyo City and is almost coterminous with Suginami Ward (a small area in the south-east is part of the Tokyo 7th district ). The district was created in 1994 as part of an electoral reform effort in the Japanese House of Representatives , and was first implemented in the 1996 general election .
As of 2015, this district was home to 365,194 constituents.[1]
Before a series of electoral reforms in 1994, Suginami Ward had been part of Tokyo 4th district , where five representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote .
From the creation of the district until 2021, the only representative for the district was Nobuteru Ishihara , a former LDP secretary-general and Minister of the Environment who headed his own faction and is the son of Shintarō Ishihara former Governor of Tōkyō . Ishihara lost
the seat to Harumi Yoshida, a university professor, in the 2021 elections . Tarō Yamamoto , leader of the Reiwa Shinsengumi , had announced he'd run in the district, but he bowed out and endorsed Yoshida.[2]
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In popular culture [ edit ]
The 8th district is featured in the fifth season of the anime Aggretsuko , with the main character Retsuko running for election to the district for the Rage Party against her boyfriend Haida's brother Jiro to succeed his father Juzo.
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