Koichi Yamamoto

Background and profile

• Member, Ehime Prefectural Assembly
• Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Environment
• Senior Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
• Deputy Chairman, General Council of LDP
• Director, Land, Infrastructure and Transport Division of LDP
• Chairman, Fundamental National Policies Committee of Diet

  Positions

• in favor of the revision of the Constitution
• in favor of right of collective self-defense
• in favor of reactivating nuclear power plants
• against the goal of zero nuclear power by 2030s
• in favor of the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma
• in favor of evaluating the purchase of Senkaku Islands by the Government
• in favor of an attitude avoiding conflict with China
• against the participation of Japan to the Trans-Pacific Partnership
• against a nuclear-armed Japan
• no answer regarding the reform of the National assembly
• no answer regarding the reform of the Imperial Household that would allow women to retain their Imperial status even after marriage