Takashi Tachibana

Takashi Tachibana
立花 孝志
Tachibana in 2021
Leader of the NHK Party
Assumed office
7 April 2023
(Disputed with Ayaka Otsu)
DeputyHodaka Maruyama
Preceded byAyaka Otsu
In office
17 June 2013 – 8 March 2023
DeputyHodaka Maruyama
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byAyaka Otsu
Leader of the Horiemon New Party
Assumed office
20 May 2020
Member of the House of Councillors
In office
29 July 2019 – 10 October 2019
Succeeded bySatoshi Hamada
Parliamentary groupMinna no Tō
ConstituencyProportional
Member of the Katsushika Ward Assembly
In office
13 November 2017 – 26 May 2019
Member of the Funabashi City Assembly
In office
1 May 2015 – 14 July 2016
Personal details
Born (1967-08-15) 15 August 1967 (age 57)
Izumiōtsu, Osaka, Japan
Political partyNHK Party (National)
Horiemon New (Prefectural)
Other political
affiliations
Minna no Tō (until 2013)
OccupationSocial activist, journalist, accountant, politician

Takashi Tachibana (立花 孝志, Tachibana Takashi, born 15 August 1967) is a Japanese social activist, journalist, accountant and politician who is the founder and leader of the NHK Party (NHK党, NHK tō). A former assemblyman for the Funabashi City Assembly and the Katsushika Ward Assembly, he was elected to the House of Councillors in the July 2019 regular election on his party's proportional representation list. He automatically forfeited his seat on 10 October when he officially became a candidate in the October 2019 by-election to the House of Councillors for a majoritarian seat in Saitama.[1]

  1. ^ Mainichi Shimbun, 10 October 2019: N国・立花氏が議員失職 浜田氏繰り上げ当選へ Archived 12 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 12 October 2019.