A synthesized gain in a resending operation can be improved significantly by relatively simple control when resending control is applied upon executing of a transmission diversity using CDD. A radio communication apparatus equipped with a plurality of antennas and for performing communication by MIMO, includes a phase shift amount assigning section 18 for executing a CDD process to assign a cyclic phase shift to a transmission signal on a frequency axis, a response signal demodulator 16 for demodulating ACK/NACK received from a destination station, and outputting control information about a resending operation when NACK is received and a reception is failed, and an initial phase controller 17 for setting an offset to a phase shift at a time of CDD process in response to a number of transmission times in resending control such that a predetermined offset, which is produced by adding a phase difference from a signal transmitted from other antenna to the phase shift, is assigned to a signal transmitted from the antenna over a full frequency band, wherein a frequency characteristic of a radio propagation path at a time of resending is changed every time of transmission times.