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Masahito Nishikawa

PEP · Politician

Masahito Nishikawa is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	AMasahito Nishikawa · Masahito Nishikawa · NISHIKAWA Masahito · Масахито Нисикава · 西川将人 · 1 more...				[sources]
Alias	Нисикава, Масахито				[sources]
Weak alias	にしかわ将人				[sources]
Birth date	1968-11-07				[sources]
Place of birth	Asahikawa · Asahikawa, Hokkaido				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
First name	Masahito				[sources]
Last name	Nishikawa				[sources]
Political association	Centrist Reform Alliance · Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan · The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Independent				[sources]
Website	nishikawa-masahito.jp				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q11628085				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	commons.wikimedia.org				[sources]
Position	Mayor of Asahikawa (2006-2021) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan				[sources]
Education	Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University · Hokkaido University				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2026-03-29	Last processed	2026-03-29	First seen	2026-01-02

Descriptions

Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Hokkaido Bloc (proportional representation), elected once

— Japanese House of Representatives Members, 2026-02-02

Japanese politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2026-01-03

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Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the House of Representatives of Japan	-	-

Data sources

Japanese House of Representatives Members440

Current members of the Japanese House of Representatives (Shūgiin), the lower house of the National Diet of Japan.

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Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons272,289

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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