Education
Keio University.
田川 誠一
Keio University.
Tagawa was first elected to the House of Representatives of Japan in 1960. He would ultimately be re-elected to the House in eleven elections. Tagawa and a group of other lawmakers, including Yōhei Kōno, broke away from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (Liberal Democratic Party) in 1976.
The New Liberal Club formed a coalition government with the Liberal Democratic Party in December 1983.
Tagawa became the Minister of Home Affairs within the government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone as part of the coalition agreement. The New Liberal Club was disbanded in 1986 and rejoined the Liberal Democratic Party on August 15, 1986.
Tagawa spent the rest of his career campaigning against political corruption. He retired from politics in 1993.
Seiichi Tagawa died from complications of old age at a nursing home in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on August 7, 2009, at the age of 91.
Tagawa, Yohei and the others founded the New Liberal Club political party on June 25, 1976. Folloiwng the disbanding of the New Liberal Club, Tagawa went on to found a second political party, the short-lived and now defunct Progressive Party.