Education
Kyoto University.
Kyoto University.
A graduate of Kyoto University (with a major in law), In April 2010 Yamada became chairman of the Spirit of Japan Party, which he founded for the Upper House election, with Hiroshi Nakada, the former mayor of Yokohama, and Hiroshi Saitō, the former governor of Yamagata. He lost his seat in the Diet in the December 2014 general election. Like Ishihara, Yamada is affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi.
He often gives lectures to local branches of the organization.
He is a former member of the House of Representatives and was the inaugural Secretary-General of the Party for Future Generations, an opposition party formed in August 2014. In September 2015 it was announced that he would contest the 2016 House of Councillors election as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.