Hei Seki
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Hei Seki | |
|---|---|
石 平 | |
 Seki in 2025 | |
| Member of the House of Councillors | |
| Assumed office 29 July 2025 | |
| Constituency | National PR |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Shi Ping 30 January 1962 |
| Party | Innovation (since 2025) |
| Alma mater | Peking University Kobe University |
Hei Seki (石 平, Seki Hei; born 30 January 1962),[a] also known as Yo Kitano (北埜 陽, Kitano Yō) for Japanese name,[1] is a Chinese-Japanese commentator and politician, serving as a member of the House of Councillors since 2025. He is known for criticising the Chinese Communist Party, support of Taiwan as the Republic of China and in the 2010s having held revisionist remarks on the war crimes of Imperial Japan.[2][3][4]
Chinese sanctions
Shi Ping was born in Chengdu, Sichuan on 30 January 1962, and his parents are university instructors. During the Cultural Revolution, his parents were sent down to a farm, while Shi was raised by his grandfather, who was a traditional Chinese medicine physician in rural Sichuan. His grandfather had secretly taught the Analects to Shi. He died from lung cancer when Shi was 11 years old.[5]
Shi attended Peking University and studied philosophy in 1980. In 1982, he participated in the democracy movement. He went to study in Japan in 1988,[5] and naturalized in 2007.[6]
On 20 July 2025, Seki was elected as a member of the House of Councillors in the national proportional representation block for 47,939 votes.[7][8]
On a trip to Taiwan, Seki stated that "Taiwan is the Republic of China" and that Taiwan is an independent country, not part of the People's Republic of China.[4][9]
On 8 September 2025, the government of the People's Republic of China banned Seki from entering mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. A statement from the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry stated Seki "has long spread fallacies on issues including Taiwan, the Diaoyu Islands, history, Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong".[10] This was in response to Seki's critical statements to the People's Republic of China.[11] In response Japan issued an diplomatic protest.[11]