Gaku Hasegawa

Gaku Hasegawa (長谷川 岳, Hasegawa Gaku; born February 16, 1971) is a member of the House of Councillors of Japan from Hokkaido. He belongs to the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

Gaku Hasegawa
長谷川 岳
Member of the House of Councillors
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 July 2010
Preceded by	Yoshio Nakagawa
Constituency	Hokkaido at-large
Personal details
Born	(1971-02-16) 16 February 1971 (age 54) Kasugai, Aichi, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Alma mater	Hokkaido University

Career

In 1990, Hasegawa enrolled at Hokkaido University and majored in Business Administration. While attending university, he, with five other friends, brought the Soran Festival to Hokkaido, which is now run by the Yasakoi Soran Festival Foundation. The Soran Festival incorporates the traditional Sōran Bushi song and dance. In 1998 he was elected Director of the Yasakoi Soran Foundation. He has received the Japan Event New Theme Prize, the Suntory Area Culture Prize, and the Japanese Lifestyle and Culture Prize, for his founding of the Yasakoi Soran Bushi Festival that has come to represent the city of Sapporo.

In 2008, Hasegawa ran against Takahiro Yokomichi of the Democratic Party of Japan for representative of the first district of Hokkaido. He came in second place with a total of 124,343 votes.^[1][2] He was elected to the House of Councillors in July 2010.^[3]