Takashi Tachibana


Takashi Tachibana is a social activist, journalist, accountant and politician who is the founder and leader of The Party to Protect the People from NHK. A former assemblyman for the Funabashi City Assembly and the Katsushika Ward Assembly, he was elected to the House of Councillors in the July 2019 regular election on his party's proportional representation list. He automatically forfeited his seat on 10 October when he officially became a candidate in the October 2019 by-election to the House of Councillors for a majoritarian seat in Saitama.

Career

He was an accountant, program producer and executive assistant of Katsuji Ebisawa, the chairman of NHK from 1997 through 2005. He leaked information about NHK's accounting scandals to the Shukan Bunshun in 2005., which forced him to retire. He founded an internet watchdog TV show concentrating on NHK in 2011.

Political career

In November 2017, he won the Katsushika ward assembly election in Tokyo at 2954 votes. On 27 December, the Tokyo District Court dismissed his request to sue the owner of one seg cell phone for the contract of NHK bill collection. In June 2018, the Tokyo High Court supported the district court's decision.
Tachibana leads The Party to Protect the People from NHK, which distributes stickers for the purpose of expelling NHK reception bill collectors. He supports scrambled broadcasting of NHK, such that only viewers who want to watch NHK need to pay the broadcast fees.
Tachibana was elected as a member of Japan's House of Councillors at the election for the House of Councillors at 2019.
He acknowledged he was suffering from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
In May 2020, Tachibana founded the Horiemon New Party.

Controversies

Shingo Watanabe video

Tachibana published a video about Shingo Watanabe, a member of Settsu city assembly. The video alleged that Watanabe knew the condition of the corpse of Moritomo Gakuen officials. Watanabe made a libel for criminal charge and damages against Tachibana. The Tokyo High Court, in charge of criminal litigation, charged him with an indemnification in the civil litigation and ordered a fee of 300,000 yen. Watanabe then criticized Tachibana who insisted that the case was without foundation, stated that there was a problem in the law mind spirit, and refused to pay the 300,000 yen fee.

Comments justifying genocide

In September 2019 Tachibana uploaded a video where he justified the use of genocide as a solution for overpopulation. He also questioned Japan's aid for underdeveloped countires, saying that poverty and violence were part of "The natural order God created." He also stated in reference to third world countries: "It’s impossible to teach dogs. close to being dogs. There are an overwhelming number of people like that in the world. These countries have babies to the point of idiocy." Later on he denied these news reports.

Electoral record

DateElectionConstituencyNominationVotesShareTotal candidatesRank achievedRank needed to winResult
8 September 2013Settsu City assembly generalN-Koku3171.1%292521Lost
23 February 2014Machida City assembly generalN-Koku1,5891.1%413836Lost
26 April 2015Funabashi City assembly generalN-Koku2,6221.4%733550Won
31 July 2016Tokyo Metropolis gubernatorialN-Koku27,2410.4%2181Lost
22 January 2017Ibaraki City assembly generalN-Koku1,5311.7%433328Lost
2 July 2017Tokyo Metropolis assembly generalKatsushika CityN-Koku4,4632.4%884Lost
12 November 2017Katsushika City assembly generalN-Koku2,9541.9%593340Won
9 June 2019Sakai City mayoralN-Koku14,1105.1%331Lost
21 July 201925th House of Councillors regularproportional
N-Koku list		N-Koku987,885
130,233		2.0%
88.8%		13: 155
4		n/a
1		50
1		Won
27 October 201924th House of Councillors by-electionSaitamaN-Koku168,28913.6%221Lost
10 November 2019Ebina City mayoralN-Koku2,9905.5%331Lost
24 November 2019Sakurai City mayoralN-Koku1,2948.3%221Lost
8 December 2019Koganei City mayoralN-Koku6781.7%441Lost
5 July 2020Tokyo Metropolis gubernatorialHoriemon New43,9120.72%2261Lost