Takashi Tachibana

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Takashi Tachibana
立花 孝志
Tachibana in 2021
Leader of The Party to Protect the People from NHK
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 June 2013
Deputy	Hodaka Maruyama
Preceded by	Position established
Leader of the Horiemon New Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 May 2020
Preceded by	Position established
Member of the House of Councillors
In office 29 July 2019 – 10 October 2019
Succeeded by	Satoshi Hamada
Parliamentary group	Minna no Tō
Constituency	Proportional
Member of the Katsushika Ward Assembly
In office 13 November 2017 – 26 May 2019
Member of the Funabashi City Assembly
In office 1 May 2015 – 14 July 2016
Personal details
Born	(1967-08-15) 15 August 1967 (age 54) Izumiōtsu, Osaka, Japan
Political party	N-Koku (National) Horiemon New (Prefectural)
Other political affiliations	Minna no Tō (until 2013)
Occupation	Social activist, journalist, accountant, politician

Takashi Tachibana (立花孝志, Tachibana Takashi, born 15 August 1967) is a social activist, journalist, accountant and politician who is the founder and leader of The Party to Protect the People from NHK (NHKから国民を守る党, NHK Kara Kokumin wo Mamoru Tō). 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.^[1]

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.,^[2] 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.^[3] 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.^[4][5]

In May 2020, Tachibana founded the Horiemon New Party.^[6] Tachibana named the party after entrepreneur Takafumi Horie (who was given the nickname "Horiemon" due to his resemblance to the manga character Doraemon) and uses Horie's likeliness in campaign ads. Despite this, Horie has publicly stated that he does not have any connection to the party and that Tachibana used his name and likeliness without his permission.^[7]

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.^{[clarification needed]} 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 was reported by Asahi Shimbun to have appeared in a video where he appeared to justify the use of genocide as a solution for overpopulation.^[8] In the video, he also questioned Japan's aid for underdeveloped countries, 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. (They’re) 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."^[9] In a subsequent video issued on his YouTube channel, he rejected these reports, said he was not in favor of such policies, and that he only said these things in order to generate controversy and media coverage.^[10]

Electoral record[]

References[]

External links[]

• Takashi Tachibana's channel on YouTube