Akira Kasai

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Akira Kasai
笠井 亮
Kasai in 2022
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 11 September 2005 – 9 October 2024
Constituency	Tokyo PR
Member of the House of Councillors
In office 23 July 1995 – 22 July 2001
Constituency	National PR
Personal details
Born	(1952-10-15) 15 October 1952 (age 72) Suita, Osaka, Japan
Political party	Communist
Alma mater	University of Tokyo
Website	kasai-akira.jp

Akira Kasai (笠井 亮, Kasai Akira) is a Japanese politician and a former member of the House of Representatives for the Japanese Communist Party.^[1] Kasai, a former policy chief of the JCP, is critical of the United States' intervention in the Syrian Civil War in absence of resolutions by the UN Security Council, saying that the actions are aggravating the civil war.^[2] He is supportive of normalizing Japan's relationship with North Korea, claiming that the issues with North Korea can only be solved by developing a dialogue and trust.^[3] He similarly thinks that Japan should push the United States to hold talks with North Korea to avert a war caused by accident or misunderstanding.^[4] Kasai is against the Trans-Pacific Partnership.^[5]

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