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Ikuo Yamahana
山花郁夫
Official portrait, 2012

Member of theHouse of Representatives
In office 27 October 2024 – 23 January 2026
Preceded by	Tatsuya Ito
Succeeded by	Tatsuya Ito
Constituency	Tokyo 22nd
In office 23 October 2017 – 14 October 2021
Constituency	Tokyo PR
In office 30 August 2009 – 16 November 2012
Preceded by	Tatsuya Ito
Succeeded by	Tatsuya Ito
Constituency	Tokyo 22nd
In office 26 June 2000 – 8 August 2005
Preceded by	Tatsuya Ito
Succeeded by	Tatsuya Ito
Constituency	Tokyo 22nd

Personal details
Born	山花郁夫 (Ikuo Yamahana) (1967-01-18)18 January 1967 (age 59) Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan
Party	CRA (since 2026)
Other political affiliations	DPJ (1998–2016) DP (2016–2017) CDP (2017–2026)
Parent	Sadao Yamahana (father)
Relatives	Hideo Yamahana (grandfather)
Alma mater	Ritsumeikan University

Ikuo Yamahana (Japanese:山花郁夫,Hepburn:Yamahana Ikuo; born 18 January 1967) is aJapanese politician of theConstitutional Democratic Party of Japan, who served as a member ofHouse of Representatives in theDiet (national legislature).

Political career

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Yamahana is the son of the former chairman of theJapanese Socialist Party,Sadao Yamahana. He started his political career as a secretary to then-Diet member and future Prime MinisterYukio Hatoyama.

(Left to right)Banri Kaieda, Yamahana andTakeshi Nakane talking withYukiya Amano, Director General of theIAEA, at the Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety inVienna, June 2011.

Yamahana has only run inTokyo's 22nd district for all his parliamentary career and represented it several times. He lost his seat twice in theLDP landslides of 2005 and 2012. After 2 unsuccessful runs to regain his seat in 2012 and 2014, Yamahana managed to return to the Diet in the2017 election via theTokyo proportional representation block. While losing the race for the Tokyo-22nd seat, hegained enough votes to be returned through the CDP's list in the Tokyo block.^[1]

Yamahana served as Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs in thecabinet of Naoto Kan and asDeputy Justice Minister in thecabinet of Yoshihiko Noda.