Chūryō Morii

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Chūryō Morii ( Japanese 森 井 忠良 , Morii Chūryō ; born July 25, 1929 in Kure , Hiroshima Prefecture ; † April 23, 2011 in Hiroshima , Hiroshima Prefecture) was a Japanese politician of the Socialist Party of Japan (SPJ).

Life

Chūryō Morii, who was one of the survivors of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, studied at Waseda University after attending school and became an employee of the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation after completing his studies in 1953 .

He began his political career in the SPJ and was elected as its candidate in 1972 for the first time as a member of the lower house ( Shūgiin ) and represented the four-mandate constituency of Hiroshima II for seven legislative terms until 1996 . During his long membership in parliament he campaigned in particular for the passing of the law for the victims of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki .

Almost fifty years after the atomic bombing, Prime Minister Murayama Tomiichi appointed him on August 8, 1995 as Minister of Health and Social Affairs ( Kōsei-daijin ) in his reshaped cabinet and thus to succeed Shōichi Ide . He held the ministerial office until the resignation of Prime Minister Murayama on January 11, 1996 and then handed over the office of health and social affairs minister to Naoto Kan . In 1996 he participated in the founding of the Democratic Party , for which he lost the Hiroshima V constituency created by the electoral reform to Yukihiko Ikeda in the same year .

Chūryō Morii died on April 23, 2011 of complications from pneumonia and was buried in a cemetery in his hometown of Kure.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Senkyo: 41st Shūgiin election, constituency result Hiroshima 5 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / go2senkyo.com
  2. ↑ jiji.com, April 24, 2011 , accessed June 1, 2011 (Japanese)
personal data
SURNAME Morii, Chūryō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 森 井 忠良
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Kure , Hiroshima Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2011
Place of death Hiroshima , Hiroshima Prefecture