Banri Kaieda

Banri Kaieda (2011)

Banri Kaieda ( Japanese 海 江 田 万里 , Kaieda Banri ; born February 26, 1949 in Suginami , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( Zeikintō → New Japan Party → Minshu Shintō Club → Shimin League → Democratic Party → Progressive Democratic Party → Constitutional Democratic Party Party ) and since 1993 with interruptions (2005–2009, 2014–2017) member of the lower house of the national parliament for the Tokyo prefecture (constituency 1 or proportional representation). From 2010 to 2011 he was Minister of State for Economic, Fiscal, Science and Technology Policy in the Kan cabinet , which was reorganized for the first time , from January to September 2011 Minister of Economic Affairs in the Kan cabinet , which has been reorganized for the first time, and Chairman of the Democratic Party from 2012 to 2014.

Kaieda, who graduated from Keiō University in 1972 as a political scientist , worked after completing his studies as a secretary to a member of the House of Lords and as a business commentator for newspapers, magazines and television. In the upper house election in 1986 he ran for the Zeikin-tō ("tax party") in Tokyo Prefecture , but was not elected. In 1993 he ran for the New Japan Party in the old three-mandate 1st constituency of Tokyo for the lower house and was elected from the state with the highest percentage of votes. Unlike most party members, he did not participate in the founding of the New Progressive Party in 1994 and in 1995 became party chairman of the Shimin League ("Citizen League "), which he founded together with Sadao Yamahana (formerly SPJ ) and other ex-socialists. In 1996 the Shimin League became part of the Democratic Party .

Since 1996 Kaieda has been running in the new constituency Tokyo 1, which he lost to Kaoru Yosano ( LDP ) in 1996 and 2005 . In 1996, however, he was elected via the Tokyo proportional representation of the Democratic Party. In the Shūgiin he was a member of the budget and finance committees, and between 2010 and 2012 he was chairman of the committee several times. In the DPJ, he was chairman of the Tokyo Prefectural Association in 2000 and chairman of the Political Research Council in 2002.

In September 2010, Prime Minister Naoto Kan appointed him to his cabinet as Minister of State for Economic, Fiscal, Science and Technology Policy, and when the cabinet was reshuffled in January 2011 , he took over the Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry , which he held until September 2, 2011 directed. After Kan's resignation in 2011, Kaieda ran for successor in the election of the party leader ; he led in the first ballot, but was defeated in the runoff Yoshihiko Noda .

In the 2012 general election , which ended nationwide with landslide-like losses for the Democrats, Kaieda lost the constituency Tokyo 1 by 1,134 votes to the liberal democrat Miki Yamada, but with this narrow defeat she led the proportional representation list of the Democrats in Tokyo and was re-elected in the proportional representation block. After the election he ran again for the party chairmanship and prevailed against Sumio Mabuchi . Under his leadership, the Democrats lost their position as the strongest party in the House of Lords after six years to the Liberal Democrats in the 2013 upper house election . In the 2014 general election, the election results of democratic candidates nationwide recovered slightly from the 2012 landslide defeat, but Kaieda herself was even more defeated by Miki Yamada (Kaieda 35.6%, Yamada 42.7%) and thus also missed a seat in the Tokyo proportional representation. After being voted out of the lower house, Kaieda resigned from the party leadership. In the general election in 2017 , he ran for a short time before by Yukio Edano , founded Constitutionally Democratic Party back in the constituency Tokyo 1 and won this time narrowly to Yamada (Kaieda 40.7%, Yamada 39.4%).

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 海 江 田 万里 氏 が 当選 確 実 東京 １ 区 、 自 民 前 職 を 破 る . In: Sankei News . October 23, 2017. Retrieved December 23, 2017 (Japanese).