Akihiro Ōta

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Akihirō Ōta and other Kōmeitō MPs at a meeting with US Ambassador Tom Schieffer in March 2008.

Akihiro Ōta ( Japanese 太 田 昭 宏 ; Ōta Akihiro ; born October 6, 1945 in Shinshiro , Aichi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Kōmeitō , MP for the 12th constituency of Tokyo . He was party chairman of the Kōmeitō from 2006 to 2009 and Minister of Land and Transport from 2012 to 2015 .

Ōta graduated from Kyoto University in 1971 and then became a journalist at the Kōmei Shimbun , the Kōmeitō's party newspaper. When Shugiin-election in 1990 , he ran for the first time, but only three years later chosen in the 9th constituency Tokyo. After the dissolution of the Kōmeitō he belonged to the Shinshintō , in 1994 he became Deputy Secretary General. After the end of the Shinshintō he belonged to the (new) Kōmeitō, for which he was re-elected three times from 2000 with the support of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the 12th constituency of Tokyo.

In September 2006 Ōta was elected party chairman of the Kōmeitō without dissenting votes. One of his central demands on the coalition partner LDP and the new Prime Minister Shinzō Abe was that future visits to the Yasukuni Shrine should not be made . He also strictly rejected the amendment to the pacifist post-war constitution already demanded by his predecessor Koizumi , and at the same time called for an acceleration of the domestic political reform program.

Even before the Sangiin election in 2007 , which clearly defeated the governing coalition, Ōta confirmed that it wanted to continue the coalition. One of the campaign issues was a scandal over lost pension entitlement records; in this context Ōta had assigned joint responsibility to the former social ministers Kan ( DPJ ), Koizumi (LDP) and Sakaguchi (Kōmeitō).

In the 2009 general election , in which the Komeitō suffered heavy losses, Ōta not only lost his constituency to the Democrat Ai Aoki , but also his seat in parliament, as he was not guaranteed a place on the list in a proportional district. He then resigned from the party leadership. In the 2012 general election , he won the 12th constituency of Tokyo with 51.0% of the vote and returned to the lower house. In the following, renewed LDP-Kōmeitō coalition he was under Prime Minister Shinzō Abe Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister.

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  1. ↑ Masami Itō: Give Yasukuni a miss: New Komeito. In: The Japan Times Online. September 30, 2006, accessed May 10, 2008 .
  2. ↑ Masami Itō: Komeito to stay firmly in coalition camp. In: The Japan Times Online. July 12, 2007, accessed May 10, 2008 .
  3. ↑ Asahi Shimbun , June 16, 2006: 太 田 ・ 公 明 代表 「菅 氏 、 小泉 氏 、 坂口 氏 、 み ん な 悪 い」 - 政治
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SURNAME Ōta, Akihiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 太 田 昭 宏 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Shinshiro , Aichi Prefecture , Japan