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is a Japanese street musician and a fringe political activist who was a candidate for the governor of Tokyo in 2007. He was born in Kagoshima Prefecture and lives in Fukuoka. He gained notoriety with his provocative 2007 Tokyo gubernatorial election speech, which was posted on YouTube.〔(Youtube: speech by Koichi Toyama )〕 Out of fourteen candidates in the election, Toyama placed eighth with 15,059 votes (0.27 percent of total votes cast). Video footage of Koichi's 2007 speech was also used by British musician M.I.A. to open her Kala Tour concerts.〔http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic0_CDxI5b4〕 ==Life== While his background was an intense revolt against the formal high-school education system,〔Chris Salzberg: (Japan: Toyama Kouichi calls for revolution, bloggers reflect on freedom of speech ), Global Voices, 25 April 2007〕 he has been described as having a left-wing history, labelled a nihilist,〔 an anarchist.〔(Meeting the anarchist ), Japundit.com, 4 July 2007〕 In 2001-2002 he served two prison sentences for defamation. According to some sources, he was until then a far-left activist but turned to a self-designed national anarchism, describing himself as a fascist.〔''Koichi Toyama'', Japanese Wikipedia〕 Koichi has written several books〔 on his high school defamation, student activism and avantgarde music. Since 2007 he has educated political activists in Fukuoka in literature, history of philosophy and music. He has also run for the Kumamoto city assembly.〔 In 2006-2007 he was fined for traffic rule violations.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Koichi Toyama」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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