Akira Satō (politician)

Akira Satō, 2017

Akira Satō ( Japanese 左 藤 章 , Satō Akira ; born July 12, 1951 in Fukui Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( Kishida faction ) and a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , for the 2nd constituency Osaka .

Satō worked after his studies at the University of Fukui for the textile company Seiren . In 1979 he became secretary to his father-in-law, the Shūgiin MP Megumu Satō . This left the LDP in 1993 and followed Ichirō Ozawa into the Renewal Party and the New Progressive Party (NFP). After the electoral reform, Akira Satō ran even in the 1996 Shūgiin election for the NFP in the Kinki block in the newly introduced proportional representation, but could not win a seat. His father-in-law meanwhile won the new single-seat constituency Osaka 2 for the NFP; he became a member of the Minseitō after the dissolution of the NFP , but then returned to the LDP. For the Shūgiin election 2000 he withdrew from politics, Akira Satō took over the constituency candidacy and prevailed. In 2003 he was re-elected.

In the "post-privatization election" in 2005 Sato was one of the "rebels", the opponents of the post-privatization operated by party chairman Jun'ichirō Koizumi , and had to run for election without LDP support. He just lost his seat to the LDP "assassin" candidate Shika Kawajō . In 2009 he ran again as a non-party, but was defeated again, now the Democrat Hitoshi Hagihara. It was not until the Shūgiin election in 2012 that Satō - now again as an LDP candidate - was able to win the constituency and move into the Shūgiin again; he was one of only three LDP MPs from the 19 constituencies of the prefecture. Then he was Parliamentary State Secretary ( daijin seimukan ) in the Ministry of Defense for the second Abe cabinet until September 2013 . In October 2013 he took over the leadership of the defense policy department of the LDP. From September 2014 to October 2015 ( reshaped second and third Abe cabinet ) he was Deputy Minister ( fukudaijin ) in the Ministry of Defense. In 2014 she was re-elected as a member of Ōsaka 2 with 46.5% of the vote.

Web links

• Official Website : Profile (Japanese)
• Shūgiin: MP, 左 藤 章 君 (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : election results Shūgiin 2014, majority election, Ōsaka 2 ( memento of the original from October 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (Japanese)