Akira Nagatsuma

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Akira Nagatsuma (June 2010)

Akira Nagatsuma ( Japanese 長 妻 昭 , Nagatsuma Akira ; born June 14, 1960 in Nerima , Tokyo ) is a Japanese politician ( Heisei Ishin no Kai → New Party Sakigake → Democratic Party → Democratic Progressive Party → Constitutional Democratic Party ), member of the Shūgiin , the lower house, for the 7th constituency of Tokyo and was Minister for Health, Labor and Social Affairs from September 2009 to September 2010 , first in the Hatoyama cabinet , then in the Kan cabinet .

Nagatsuma, a graduate of Keiō University , first worked for Nippon Denki , then as a journalist for Nikkei Business, the publication of a subsidiary of Nihon Keizai Shimbun- sha. In the 1995 election for the Sangiin, the upper house, Nagatsuma ran for the Heisei Ishin no Kai ( 平 成 維新 の 会 , "Assembly for a Heisei Restoration"), a reformist political grouping, in eighth place on the proportional representation list. However, the Heisei Ishin no Kai received no seats. A year later he joined the Shūgiin election in 1996 in the newly created constituency Tokyo 10 for the Democratic Party, but received only the third highest percentage of votes.

In 2000 , Nagatsuma was elected to Shūgiin for the first time in the 7th constituency of Tokyo, where he was able to beat former minister Shigeru Kasuya ( LDP ). Since then, he has been re-elected five times - in 2005 only through the Tokyo proportional representation. In the 2014 election , Nagatsuma won the only prefecture-wide constituency for the Democrats and one of only two for the opposition (the other was Mito Kakizawa in constituency 15, then Ishin no Tō , now the Democratic Progressive Party).

Nagatsuma played a key role in uncovering the scandal over lost pension records that dominated the 2007 Sangiin election campaign . For his discussion of pension policy, he was also nicknamed “Mr. Pension “( ミ ス タ ー 年金 , misutā nenkin ). In the same year he was led in the shadow cabinet of the Democratic Party as shadow minister for pension issues. After the Democratic Party's election victory in 2009 , Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama appointed him to the cabinet as Minister for Health, Labor and Social Affairs and made him responsible for pension reform ( nenkin kaikaku ). In 2010 he was replaced by Ritsuo Hosokawa under Prime Minister Naoto Kan .

From 2012 to 2015 Nagatsuma was one of the Deputy General Secretaries (kanjichō daikō) of the Democratic Party. In 2015 he ran for the election of the party chairman , but was defeated in the first ballot to Gōshi Hosono and Katsuya Okada , from 2015 to 2016 under Okada he was one of the deputy chairmen of the Democratic Party and the successor party Minshintō, founded in 2016.

In view of the 2017 Shūgiin election , Nagatsuma switched to the recently founded Constitutional Democratic Party and has been its deputy chairman ever since.

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  1. ↑ 参議院> 第 17 回 参議院 議員 選 挙> 比例 区> 平 成 維新 の 会 . In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures) September 17, 2008, archived from the original August 19, 2009 ; Retrieved September 30, 2009 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ 衆議院> 第 41 回 衆議院 議員 選 挙> 東京 都> 東京 10 区 . In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures) September 17, 2008, archived from the original August 17, 2009 ; Retrieved September 30, 2009 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 衆議院> 第 42 回 衆議院 議員 選 挙> 東京 都> 東京 7 区 . In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures) September 17, 2008, archived from the original on July 11, 2010 ; Retrieved September 30, 2009 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Nagatsuma, Akira
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 長 妻 昭
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Nerima