Education
Meiji University.
桜田 義孝
Meiji University.
A native of Kashiwa, Chiba and graduate of Meiji University, Sakurada had served in the city assembly of Kashiwa for two terms since 1987 and in the assembly of Chiba Prefecture since 1995. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996. His profile on the Liberal Democratic Party website:
Director, Committee on Rules and Administration
Member, Committee on Fundamental National Policies
Member, Deliberative Council on Political Ethics
Deputy Chairman, Diet Affairs Committee of Liberal Democratic Party
Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, Sakurada attended on March 3, 2014 the meeting to seek a review of the Kono Statement, where he voiced his support to the revision.
In January 2016, he said that World World War II comfort women were "professional prostitutes.
That"s business." He apologized later in the day. Nippon Kaigi Diet discussion group (日本会議国会議員懇談会 - Nippon kaigi kokkai giin kondankai)
Parliamentarians acting to protect the Japanese territory (日本の領土を守るため行動する議員連盟)
Sakurada gave the following answers to the questionnaire submitted by Mainichi to parlementarians in 2012:
in favor of the revision of the Constitution
in favor of the right of collective self-defense (revision of Article 9)
against the reform of the National assembly (unicameral instead of bicameral)
in favor of reactivating nuclear power plants
against the goal of zero nuclear power by 2030s
in favor of the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma (Okinawa)
in favor of evaluating the purchase of Senkaku Islands by the Government
in favor of a strong attitude versus China
against the participation of Japan to the Transport-Pacific Partnership
in favor of considering a nuclear-armed Japan in the future
against the reform of the Imperial Household that would allow women to retain their Imperial status even after marriage.
Sakurada is a board member of the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (Tokyo 2020), and serves as a political adviser to the Pachinko Chain Stores Association (PCSA). Sakurada is a member of the following right-wing Diet groups:.
