Education
University of Tokyo; Hokkaido University.
田中秀征
University of Tokyo; Hokkaido University.
He was first elected to the House of Representatives in the 1972 general election and represented the Nagano Prefecture first district. Following a revamp of the electoral system, he lost his seat to Kenji Kosaka in the 1996 general election. He was born in present-day Nagano City.
He later returned to the Liberal Democratic Party and served as Director-General of the Economic Planning Agency under Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto.
Tanaka again served as a policy advisor to Hosokawa during his bid for Governor of Tokyo in the 2014 gubernatorial election.
Originally a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he co-founded New Party Sakigake in 1993 and served as a senior advisor to Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa from 1993 to 1994.