Yōichi Shiraishi

Yoichi Shiraishi is a Japanese politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives of Japan.

Biography Shiraishi was born in Fuse, the western part of present-day Higashiōsaka, Osaka Prefecture and grew up in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture.

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at University of Tokyo, he joined the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan. In 1993, he received an MBA from the Graduate School of Business Administration at University of California, Berkeley. In 1997, he was transferred to the New York branch of the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, but due to the collapse of the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, he moved to the KPMG New York office.

In February 2007, Yoichi Shiraishi was nominated by Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) as a candidate for Ehime 3rd district and began campaigning for the election.

In 2012 general election, Yoichi Shiraishi lost his seat to Toru Shiraishi due to headwinds toward DPJ.

In 2014 general election, he beat Toru Shiraishi in Saijō, where he was based, but lost in other areas and lost again to Toru Shiraishi.

He was first elected in 2014.