High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tokyo's 1st district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). Between 1947 and 1993 it elected four, later three representatives by single non-transferable vote. It initially consisted of Tokyo's Chiyoda, Ch , Minato, Shinjuku, Bunky and Tait special wards. In the 1964 redistricting Ch , Bunky and Tait were split off to form the new 8th district. It was represented by several influential political leaders in postwar Japan, namely right-wing Socialist Inejir Asanuma, Communist Sanz Nosaka and, after the lifting of SCAP Douglas MacArthur's purge and his recovery from a stroke, anti-mainstream conservative Ichir Hatoyama. Later representatives included former Tokyo governor Seiichir Yasui, construction minister Y ji tsuka, JSP chairman Ichio Asukata, education minister Kaoru Yosano and Shimin League president and DPJ co-founder Banri Kaieda.