Tomio Okamura
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Tomio Okamura MP |
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Member of Parliament for Central Bohemian Region |
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Assumed office 26 October 2013 |
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| Senator from Zlín | |
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In office 20 October 2012 – 26 October 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Jana Juřenčáková |
| Succeeded by | Patrik Kunčar |
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July 4, 1972 Tokyo, Japan |
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Dawn of Direct Democracy (2013–2015) Freedom and Direct Democracy (2015–present) |
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| Website | www |
Tomio Okamura (岡村 富夫? Okamura Tomio, born 4 July 1972) is a Czech–Japanese entrepreneur, writer and politician. He was the founder of the political parties Dawn of Direct Democracy and Freedom and Direct Democracy. Since October 2013 he has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Central Bohemian Region, initially for Dawn of Direct Democracy and then from May 2015 for Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD), of which he is also leader. He previously served as an independent Senator for Zlín district from October 2012 until his election to the Chamber of Deputies a year later.
Born in Tokyo to a half-Japanese, half-Korean father, and a Moravian mother from the Zlín region, Okamura came to Czechoslovakia for the first time when he was six years old. He spent 10 years in Japan in total. He spent part of his childhood in a children's home in Mašťov near Podbořany where he experienced bullying, causing him to have a stutter until he was 20 years old.
In his youth he worked as a dustman and later a popcorn seller at a cinema in Japan. Okamura is fluent in Czech and Japanese.
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