Bunmei Ibuki

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Bunmei Ibuki

Bunmei Ibuki ( Japanese 伊 吹 文明 , Ibuki Bunmei ; born January 9, 1938 in Kyōto ) is a Japanese politician, President of the House of Commons, former Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party and multiple ministers. Within the party he led the Ibuki faction (officially: Shisuikai ) from 2005 to 2012 .

Ibuki studied economics at the University of Kyoto until 1960 . He was then an official in the Treasury. In 1983 he was elected to the lower house for the first time in the 1st constituency of Kyoto Prefecture and has been confirmed seven times since then. From September 1997 to July 1998 he was Minister of Labor in the cabinet of Ryūtarō Hashimoto . Under Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori , he was chairman of the National Commission for Public Security and Minister of State for Disaster Management between 2000 and 2001. From 2006 to 2007 Ibuki was Minister of Education in Shinzō Abe's cabinet . Shortly after taking office, he spoke out against making English as a foreign language compulsory in the curricula of Japanese elementary schools: "There is no reason to learn English unless the children speak beautiful Japanese".

After Abe's resignation, he became general secretary of the LDP under party chairman Yasuo Fukuda , whom his faction had supported in the election against Tarō Asō . In the cabinet reshuffle on August 1, 2008, Fukuda Ibuki appointed Minister of Finance, successor as General Secretary was Tarō Asō. When he was elected party chairman and prime minister a month later, he replaced Ibuki with Shōichi Nakagawa . In the new cabinet Ibukis influence had grown: the Ibuki faction was represented with three ministers. In the 2009 general election, which was devastating for the LDP , Ibuki lost his constituency to the Democrat Tomoyuki Taira , but was re-elected through the Kinki proportional representation.

In the 2012 general election , Ibuki received fewer votes than in 2009, but was able to win back his constituency with less than a third of the votes in a fragmented field of candidates. He was then elected President of the House of Commons. Toshihiro Nikai took over the chairmanship of the previous Ibuki faction . Ibuki, like Prime Minister Abe and other cabinet and LDP party members, is a member of the Nippon Kaigi , which is considered revisionist .

Ibukis wife Yūko is a granddaughter of Takahashi Ryutaro , the owner of the baseball team Takahashi Unions , chairman of the Japanese Football Association, Ryokufūkai - Upper House MPs and the Minister of International Trade and Industry after the war.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kyodo News, September 27, 2006: English education at elementary level unnecessary: ​​minister ( Memento of October 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  2. ↑ http://www.nipponkaigi.org/voice/5years
  3. ↑ http://www.nipponkaigi.org/about/10years
  4. ↑ http://kingendaikeizu.net/seizi/ibuki.htm
personal data
SURNAME Ibuki, Bunmei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 伊 吹 文明 (Japanese); Ibuki Bummei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyoto