Koya Nishikawa

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and FisheriesIn office
3 September 2014 – 23 February 2015Prime MinisterShinzo AbePreceded byYoshimasa HayashiSucceeded byYoshimasa HayashiMember of the House of RepresentativesIn office
19 December 2012 – 28 September 2017ConstituencyKita-Kantō PR (2014-2017)
Tochigi-2nd (2012-2014)In office
21 October 1996 – 21 July 2009Succeeded byAkio FukudaConstituencyKita-Kantō PR (2003-2009)
Tochigi-2nd (1996-2003) Personal detailsBorn (1942-12-26) 26 December 1942 (age 81)
Ujiie, Tochigi (now Sakura, Tochigi), JapanPolitical partyLiberal Democratic PartyAlma materTokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Koya Nishikawa (西川 公也, Nishikawa Kōya, born December 26, 1942) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Shioya District, Tochigi he attended Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology as both undergraduate and graduate students. After college, he worked at the government Tochigi Prefecture from 1967 to 1978. He was elected to the assembly of Tochigi Prefecture for the first time in 1979 and then to the Diet for the first time in 1996.

On 9 December 2020, he resigned as the special adviser to the Cabinet after being involved in a bribery scandal corresponding to a boating trip hosted by a former head of a major egg farm, who was involved in a separate bribery case.^[1]

References

• 政治家情報 〜西川 公也〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2007-10-10.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)

Political offices
Preceded by Yoshimasa Hayashi	Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries September 2014 – February 2015	Succeeded by Yoshimasa Hayashi