Education
Meiji University.
北村 茂男
Meiji University.
A native of Wajima, Ishikawa and graduate of Meiji University, Kitamura was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2005 after having served in the assembly of Ishikawa Prefecture for seven terms since 1975. His profile on the Liberal Democratic Party website:
Member, Ishikawa Prefectural Assembly
Deputy Chairman, General Council of Liberal Democratic Party
Deputy Chairman, Diet Affairs Committee of Liberal Democratic Party
Acting Director, Cabinet Division of Liberal Democratic Party
Chairman, Committee on Organizations Involved with NPO and non-governmental organization of Liberal Democratic Party
Parliamentary Secretary of Internal Affairs and Communications
Parliamentary Secretary of Cabinet Office.
Member of Japan-United States Parliamentary Association, Japan-South of Korea Parliamentary Association, Japan-Taiwan Parliamentary Commission
A member of the Diet groups affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, and to the fundamentalist league Shintō Seiji Renmei, Kitamura is in favor of the revision of the Constitution, of the right to collective-self-defense, of the change from a bicameral to a unicameral legislative system, of nuclear power plants, of relocating the United States base in Okinawa, and against the participation of Japan to the Transport-Pacific Partnership, and against a nuclear-armed Japan.