Mr. Hideki Tachibana was born in Osaka Prefecture. After graduating from the Dokkyo University Faculty of Economics, he played a front-line support role in the world of politics as personal assistant to a member of Japan's House of Representatives. He then joined a private-sector company, but, determined to follow a political path, returned to his former role as a personal assistant and set his sights on being elected to a ward assembly. However, his hopes were frustrated when he was not nominated as a candidate. After a difficult period of unemployment, he started his own business.
