The is a constituency of the House of Representatives

House of Representatives of Japan

The is the lower house of the Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors of Japan is the upper house.The House of Representatives has 480 members, elected for a four-year term. Of these, 180 members are elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a party-list system of proportional representation,...

 in the Diet of Japan

Diet of Japan

The is Japan's bicameral legislature. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives, and an upper house, called the House of Councillors. Both houses of the Diet are directly elected under a parallel voting system. In addition to passing laws, the Diet is formally...

 (national legislature). It is located in Kanagawa Prefecture

Kanagawa Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.-History:The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period...

, and consists of the cities of Miura

Miura

-Places:*Miura, Kanagawa*Miurakaigan Station*Miura District, Kanagawa*Miura Peninsula*Ganadería Miura, the home of the Miura fighting bull line-People:*Miura clan - Japanese descended clan of the Taira*Miura Anjin, honorific title of William Adams...

 and Yokosuka. Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi

Junichiro Koizumi

is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics when his term in parliament ended.Widely seen as a maverick leader of the Liberal Democratic Party , he became known as an economic reformer, focusing on Japan's government debt and the...

 served as the first representative of the constituency from 1994. Koizumi announced that he would not run in the 2009 elections

Japanese general election, 2009

A general election in Japan was held on August 30, 2009, for all 480 seats of the House of Representatives of Japan, the lower house of the Diet of Japan....

. His son Shinjirō

Shinjirō Koizumi

is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party. He is the second son of former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and younger brother of actor Kotaro Koizumi. He was elected into his father's former seat representing the Kanagawa 11th district in 2009.- External links :*...

 ran as a candidate for his father's seat representing the Kanagawa 11th district. The Democratic Party of Japan

Democratic Party of Japan

The is a political party in Japan founded in 1998 by the merger of several opposition parties. Its socially liberal platform is generally considered center-left in the Japanese political spectrum...

 fielded Katsuhito Yokokume

Katsuhito Yokokume

is a Japanese Democratic Party of Japan politician and lawyer.- Biography :The son of a truck driver, Yokokume studied law at Tokyo University, graduating in March 2005...

, a lawyer and former participant in the Ainori

Ainori

', literally "Ride together", or "Car pool" but can also be read as "love ride", is a popular television program that runs Monday evenings from 11 pm in Japan on Fuji TV. It debuted on October 11, 1999...

 TV show, as a candidate in 2009 to a bid to end the LDP dominance of the district.

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