Yasushi Adachi

I'll be honest, Yasushi Adachi is the kind of politician I can't help rubbernecking at. Osaka-born, Kyoto University sharp, and yet he seems almost allergic to playing it safe, the type who'll charge straight into a fight in the Diet or online when a smoother operator would just hedge and smile. Part of me wants to grab his sleeve and say buddy, you don't have to pick every battle. But there's something refreshingly legible about a guy who says the thing instead of dressing it up in mush. He has drawn several disciplinary motions over his remarks, was suspended by his own party in 2024, and still won an upper house seat for a different party in 2025. That stubborn, won't-back-down streak makes him a headache as an opponent and probably a rock as an ally. Elite pedigree, but the bluntness keeps a little grit on him, and weirdly, that's exactly what makes him hard to dislike.

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Yasushi Adachi is a Japanese politician born on October 14, 1965, in Izumiōtsu, Osaka Prefecture. After Kyoto University he spent 21 years at the trade ministry, then served four terms in the House of Representatives for Nippon Ishin no Kai from 2012 to 2024, drawing several disciplinary motions over his remarks. Suspended by Ishin in 2024, he left the lower house and in 2025 was elected to the House of Councillors for the Democratic Party for the People. He has an official website and Instagram and X accounts.

Name (English)

Yasushi Adachi

Name (Japanese)

足立康史

Reading

あだち やすし

Born

October 14, 1965 (age 61)

Origin

Izumiotsu, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Snake

High school

Osaka Prefectural Ibaraki High School

University

Kyoto University

• Official sitehttps://adachi.net/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/adachiyasushi/
• Xhttps://x.com/adachiyasushi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B6%B3%E7%AB%8B%E5%BA%B7%E5%8F%B2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11637002

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• Politician

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.