Akihiko Yamamoto
Akihiko Yamamoto is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Aichi Prefecture and graduate of Nagoya University, he was elected to the first of his three terms in Aichi Prefectural Assembly in 1987 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000. He was defeated in the 2009 election by Kazuyoshi Morimoto of the Democratic Party of Japan.