Jiro Aichi

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Jirō Aichi, 2016

Jirō Aichi ( Japanese 愛 知 治郎 Aichi Jirō ; born June 23, 1969 in New York City ) is a Japanese politician and was a member of the Sangiin , the upper house of the National Parliament , for Miyagi from 2001 to 2019 . He has been a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since his first election .

Aichi is the son of Kazuo Aichi (LDP → Shinseitō → NFP → LDP) and grandson of Kiichi Aichi ( LP → LDP), both Shūgiin MPs from Miyagi. He studied political science at the law faculty of Chūō University . After graduating in 1995, he worked in a law firm and as his father's secretary of parliament.

In the 2001 Sangiin election , Aichi ran without a party nomination with the support of the LDP, Kōmeitō and Conservative Party in Miyagi (at that time two seats per partial election). Behind the Democrat Tomiko Okazaki (37.2%) he received around 27.5% of the vote and pushed LDP incumbent Hiroaki Kameya (25.9%) into third place. In the 2007 election , he was re-elected even further behind Okazaki, but safe: The only other competitors were two left-wing candidates from the SDP and KPJ who had been left behind . In 2013 he was confirmed with the clear highest number of votes in front of Masamune Wada ( Minna no Tō , now LDP) and the narrowly voted out Tomiko Okazaki.

From 2005 to 2006 ( Cabinet Koizumi III (reshuffle) ) Aichi was Parliamentary State Secretary ( chōkan seimukan ) in the Defense Office , from 2013 to 2014 ( Cabinet Shinzō Abe II ) “Vice Minister” ( fuku-daijin ) in the Ministry of Finance . In the Sangiin, he chaired the Cabinet Committee from 2008 to 2009, and from 2012 to 2013 chaired the Committee on Administrative Oversight. In the Sangiin LDP, he was PARC chairman from 2016 to 2017.

In the 2019 Sangiin election, he lost 47.7% of the vote to opposition candidate Noriko Ishigaki ( KDP , 48.6%).

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  1. ↑ Expressly birth according to the Sangiin MP profile. Aichi's website states Miyagi-ken as the origin ( 出身 地 shusshinchi ; mostly refers to the place of birth, but can also mean other things such as the Koseki place of origin).

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SURNAME Aichi, Jirō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 愛 知 治郎 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: New York City , New York, USA or Miyagi, Japan