Yutaka Arai

Yutaka Arai
荒井 優
Member of the House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 November 2021[1]
ConstituencyHokkaido PR block
Personal details
Born (1975-02-28) 28 February 1975 (age 49)
Chiba, Japan
Political partyCDP
RelativesSatoshi Arai（father）
Yoshitaka Yotsumoto （grandfather）
Alma materWaseda University
Websitearaiyutaka.jp

Yutaka Arai (荒井 優, Arai Yutaka, 28 February 1975) is a Japanese politician of the CDP and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet representing the Hokkaido proportional representation block.

Career

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Yutaka was born in Chiba.[2] From the first to the third grade of elementary school, he studied at a Japanese elementary school in Sri Lanka due to his father Satoshi Arai’s transfer to the Embassy of Japan in Sri Lanka.[3] He later attended Sapporo Municipal Sankakuyama Elementary School, then attended junior high and high school in Yokohama, Kanagawa.[4] While studying at Waseda University’s Faculty of Political Economy in 1995, he served as the executive chairman of the YOSAKOI Soran Festival established by Gaku Hasegawa.

After graduating from Waseda University, he joined Recruit and was assigned to the study division. After that, he worked as a director of a venture company, yosanet Corporation, and moved to Softbank. After the Great East Japanese Earthquake, he served as managing director of Great East Japanese Earthquake Recovery Support Foundation while working in the president's office.[5] During this period, as a member of Futaba County Council for the Promotion of Education and Reconstruction Vision, he was involved in the establishment of Fukushima Prefectural Futaba Mirai Gakuen High School.[6]

Editorial when he was principal and president

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In 2016, he became the principal of Sapporo Shinyō High School, which was established by his paternal grandfather, until he entrusted the position to his successor, Nobuko Akashi in March 2021.[7] At that time, Kazuhiro Fujiwara recommended Yutaka as the youngest high school president in Japan. As principal, he doubled the number of students in his first year in office by establishing Hokkaido's first women's hardball baseball team, opening an open campus, and opening an exploration course,[8] and hired Sayaka Kobayashi, known as "Biri Gyaru", as an intern.[9]

As of August 2021, he is still involved in school management as vice president and head of the corporate headquarters of Sapporo Jikei Gakuen, and since July 2019, he has been president of Tomeikan Gakuen Junior and Senior High Schools in Saga.[10]

In addition, he served as a visiting professor at the Information Management Innovation College, advisor to the nonprofit organization Kids Door (NPO KIDSDOOR/Non-Profit Organization), outside director of the Japan-U.S. Leadership Program USJLP Fellow, and Councillor of the Tokyo Children's Library.

At the Standing Committee of the Constitutional Democratic Party held on July 13, 2021, he was appointed as the head of Hokkaido 3rd district branch of the CDP to replace his retiring father Satoshi. In 2021 Japanese general election, he lost to LDP candidate Hirohisa Takagi. However, as the CDP got three seats in the Hokkaido PR block, Yutaka, the second-largest loser of the CDP (96.25%), was elected through Hokkaido PR block.[11][12]

On 30 November 2021, Yutaka supported Kenta Izumi in the CDP leadership election following Yukio Edano’s resignation.[13]

References

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  1. ^ Notification No. 28 of November 5, 2021 (Regarding the number of votes won, the number of winners, and the address and name of the winners in the election of proportional representatives of the House of Representatives executed on October 31, 1952)
  2. ^ "大学の枠越え広がりましたね". 朝日新聞. 1996-06-04.
  3. ^ 朝日新聞特別報道部 (2014-12-16). プロメテウスの罠 ８: 決して忘れない！ 原発事故の悲劇 (in Japanese). 学研プラス. ISBN 978-4-05-914134-1.
  4. ^ "本気で挑戦する人の母校とは？ 〜「複業する校長」とSTEAM教育〜". STEAM JAPAN (in Japanese). 2021-04-01. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  5. ^ 東日本大震災復興支援財団
  6. ^ 福島県立ふたば未来学園中学校・高等学校
  7. ^ 札幌新陽高等学校
  8. ^ スタディサプリセミナーレポートMANABI MIRAI MEETING 2017 【トッププレゼンテーション】札幌新陽高等学校　荒井 優 校長　〜素人が校長に着任して1年目で生徒数が倍になったのはなぜなのか？ 2年目はどうなのか？〜
  9. ^ "ビリギャル、北海道の高校でインターンとして勤務していた". NEWSポストセブン (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  10. ^ 東明館学園 東明館中学校・高等学校７月１日より新体制！ 理事長に荒井優氏、校長に花上徳明氏 就任 | 東明館中学校・高等学校
  11. ^ "衆院選 北海道3区 立憲・荒井優氏が比例で復活 当選確実 父親の地盤引き継ぎ初の選挙". FNNプライムオンライン. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  12. ^ "【2021年 衆院選】北海道ブロック(比例区)開票速報". 衆議院選挙（2021年総選挙）特設サイト. 朝日新聞社. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
  13. ^ "立憲代表選、4陣営の推薦人は計90人 国会議員の7割固まる". 朝日新聞. 2021-11-19. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
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