Akihiro Ōhata

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Akihiro Ōhata (2010)

Akihiro Ōhata ( Japanese 大 畠 章 宏 , Ōhata Akihiro ; born October 5, 1947 in Jōhoku (today: Shirosato ), Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a former Japanese politician of the Democratic Progressive Party , was a member of the Shūgiin for the 5th constituency of Ibaraki from 1990 to 2017 and from January to September 2011 Minister of Infrastructure in the Kan cabinet . Within the party, he led his own faction, the Ōhata group, formally Sokōkai ( 素 交会 ) from 2012 to 2014 .

life and career

Ōhata, a graduate of the Musashi Technical University , today's " University of the City of Tokyo " ( Tōkyō toshi daigaku ), worked after his Shūshi degree ( 修士 , Master) for Hitachi Seisakusho , where he worked for the trade union from 1978.

1986 Ōhata was elected to the Ibaraki prefectural parliament and switched to national politics in 1990 when he was elected to Shūgiin for the first time for the Socialist Party of Japan (SPJ) in the three-mandate second constituency of Ibaraki with the second highest percentage of votes. Since the 1996 election , before which he joined the newly founded Democratic Party , Ōhata has been running in the new constituency Ibaraki 5, which he lost to ex-Labor Minister Shumpei Tsukahara ( LDP ) at the first attempt (re-election via the proportional electoral block North-Kantō), then but won six times in a row.

In the Shūgiin, Ōhata was, among other things, chairman of the Special Committee for Coal Production (1997), the Cabinet Committee (2001/02), the Constitutional Committee (2011/12) and the Disciplinary Committee (2015/16). In 2002 and 2007 he was a member of the “next cabinet”, the shadow cabinet of the Democratic Party, under party chairmen Naoto Kan and Ichirō Ozawa . Later, under Banri Kaieda , he rose to become Deputy Chairman (2012/13) and General Secretary (2013/14).

2010 appointed Prime Minister Naoto Kan Ohata, succeeding Masayuki Naoshima to Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in his cabinet . In the cabinet reshuffle in January 2011, he replaced Sumio Mabuchi , who left the cabinet, as Minister for Land, Infrastructure and Transport , his successor as Minister of Economics was Banri Kaieda . In December 2014 he was appointed as the successor to Michihiko Kano as chairman of the Sokōkai faction and was replaced in this position by Atsushi Ōshima in August 2014 .

In September 2017, he announced that he would end his political career and not run for another term in the 2017 Shūgiin election .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 鹿野 グ ル ー プ 、 新 会長 に 大 畠 元 国 交 相 . In: Nihon Keizai Shimbun . December 21, 2012, accessed January 7, 2018 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ 素 交会 会長 、 大 島 敦 議員 に 交代 . (No longer available online.) In: oohata.com. August 31, 2015, archived from the original on August 3, 2017 ; Retrieved January 7, 2018 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oohata.com
  3. ↑ ベ テ ラ ン の 引退 相 次 ぐ ＝ 谷 垣 、 横路 氏 ら １４ 人 . In: Jiji Tsūshinsha . September 28, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2018 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Ōhata, Akihiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 大 畠 章 宏 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Jōhoku (today: Shirosato ), Ibaraki Prefecture