Jun Azumi

Jun Azumi in January 2012

Jun Azumi ( Japanese 安 住 淳 , Azumi Jun ; born January 17, 1962 in Oshika (today: Ishinomaki ), Miyagi prefecture ) is a Japanese politician (non-party → NPS → DPJ → DFP → non-party → KDP ), deputy of the Shūgiin for the 5. Miyagi constituency and former Treasury Secretary .

Life

Azumi's father was the mayor of Oshika. After studying at the social science faculty of Waseda University , he started working for the public broadcaster NHK in 1985 . In 1993 he left the station and turned to politics when he ran for the Shūgiin election in 1993 as an independent with the support of the New Japan Party and New Sakigake Party (NPH) in the then three-mandate constituency Miyagi 2, but with the fifth highest percentage of votes and Missing a mandate around 16,000 votes behind third place. He then joined the NPH and in 1996 became a founding member of the Democratic Party (DPJ), for which he has been running since the 1996 Shūgiin election in the new constituency Miyagi 5 and was elected seven times in a row.

In the Democratic Party, Azumi took over the chairmanship of the campaign committee under Seiji Maehara in 2005 . In 2006 he became chairman of the Shūgiin Committee for Okinawa and the Northern Territories, and in 2007 deputy chairman of the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs. After the election victory of the Democrats in 2009 , he was initially chairman of the Shūgiin security committee; In 2010, under Naoto Kan , he took over the leadership of the election campaign committee again, before becoming State Secretary ( fuku-daijin ) in the Ministry of Defense in a cabinet reshuffle in September 2010 . In January 2011 he moved back to the party leadership as chairman of the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs. Kan's successor, Yoshihiko Noda , appointed Azumi to his cabinet as finance minister in 2011. In a cabinet reshuffle in October 2012, Noda appointed him as the (first) representative of the Secretary General ( kanjijō daikō ) in the party leadership, successor as finance minister was Kōriki Jōjima .

In the nationwide defeat of the Democrats in the Shūgiin election in 2012 , Azumi was the only Democrat in Miyagi to keep his constituency, successfully defending it in 2014 and 2017 . When the Democratic Progressive Party, the successor party of the DPJ, merged with the Party of Hope to form the Democratic People's Party in May 2018, he did not participate and left the DFP. In January 2019 he joined the faction of the Constitutional Democratic Party (KDP) and joined the party in September 2019. He then took over the PARC chairmanship of the KDP from Kiyomi Tsujimoto .

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 安 住 氏 が 立 民 入党 、 国 対 委員長 に . In: Nihon Keizai Shimbun . September 19, 2019. Retrieved September 27, 2019 (Japanese).