Education
Waseda University.
池田 元久
Waseda University.
A native of Fujisawa, Kanagawa and graduate of Waseda University, he worked at the public broadcaster Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai as a reporter from 1964 to 1989. He was re-elected in 1996.
He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party but lost his seat in 1993.