Tanigaki Sadakazu (Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum)

Tanigaki Sadakazu (タニガキ サダカズ, born 7 March 1945) is the current President of the Republic of Japan and the Chief of General Political Office of the Nationalist Party of Japan since 2011. His father is Tanigaki Senichi, a local senior party official in Kyoto. Younger Tanigaki was prepared for a legal career after close to ten years of study when his father died in 1983. He then joined the Nationalist Party and held various posts in Kyoto local government. He became the Mayor of Kyoto between 1991 and 1995. In 1995, Tanigaki was elected to the National Congress of Japan as the representative for Kyoto and is simultaneously re-elected in 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015.

After served as a secretary in the Central Secretariat of the Nationalist Party of Japan between 1995 and 1999, Tanigaki was promoted as the member of the Party General Political Office. After this promotion, his political career kept climbing higher. Tanigaki was subsequently appointed as Minister of Justice (1999–2003), Vice Chairman of the Council of Ministers (2003–2008) and Vice-President (2008–2011). Eventually, Tanigaki became the second-in-rank at the General Political Office by 2004 and the first-in-rank by 2006.

After elected by the National Congress as the President of the Republic of Japan and assumed the complete leadership of Nationalist Party in 2011, Tanigaki initiated a peaceful rapprochement with the United States and the Soviet Union, implemented a liberal economic policy and called for the closer economic and security cooperation between the member states of Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere as well as with the Southeast Asian and South Asian nations.