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Hisayasu Nagata
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永田 寿康
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| Member of the House of Representatives of Japan | |
| In office 1999 – March 31, 2006 |
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| Constituency | Chiba Prefecture |
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| Born | September 2, 1969 Nagoya, Aichi |
| Died | January 3, 2009 (aged 39) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Education | University of Tokyo (BS) University of California, Los Angeles (MBA) |
Hisayasu Nagata (永田 寿康, Nagata Hisayasu, September 2, 1969 – January 3, 2009) was a Japanese politician born in Nagoya City in Aichi Prefecture. He is well known for falsely accusing the former Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie of bribing the Liberal Democratic Party.
Personal life
Nagata secured a B.S. from University of Tokyo in 1993 and then entered the Ministry of Finance. In 1995, he obtained an MBA from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
On January 3, 2009, Nagata died.
National Diet of Japan
In 1999, he resigned from his position in the Ministry of Finance to run for the House of Representatives in Chiba Prefecture. Nagata's career in the Diet was marked by numerous embarrassing and controversial episodes.
On April 5, 2001, he asked questions at the main session of the Diet without written notes, opening the doors for a new level of preparedness in younger politicians who do not need to follow scripts in making speeches or during hearings, unlike their older peers.
On March 11, 2004, he made disparaging remarks about Keizō Obuchi, Yoshirō Mori, and Junichiro Koizumi. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party protested and his remarks were removed from the record.
In July 2005, he accused the LDP coalition party, the New Komeito Party, of illegally moving voter registrations to Tokyo in the recent metropolitan elections. Nagata had no proof and based his statements on rumor, and the DPJ apologized to the Komeito.
In a similar incident in August 2005, Nagata accused the Komeito supporter group, the Sōka Gakkai, of not registering as a religious group. The group has been registered as such since 1952, and the group brought suit against Nagata for libel later that month.
On February 16, 2006, Nagata accused in parliament former Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie of bribing the son of Tsutomu Takebe, the Liberal Democratic Party secretary general, through consulting fees. Nagata touted an alleged email by Horie instructing Livedoor to pay Takebe's son as evidence. Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) secretary general Seiji Maehara called for the government to investigate the matter. However, it was later revealed that the email couldn't be verified. As a result, DPJ made a formal public apology. Its top officials, including Maehara, resigned and Nagata was suspended from the party. Nagata later resigned from the National Diet.
