Yukio Edano

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Yukio Edano (2017)

Yukio Edano ( Japanese 枝 野 幸 男 , Edano Yukio ; born May 31, 1964 in Utsunomiya , Tochigi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician, chairman of the Constitutional Democratic Party , member of the Shūgiin , the lower house, for the 5th constituency of Saitama and former chief cabinet secretary and Minister of Economics .

life and career

Career

Yukio Edano was born on May 31, 1964 in Utsunomiya. It was named after Ozaki Yukio , who is considered one of the fathers of Japanese parliamentary democracy (the kanji are different, however). He studied law at Tōhoku University and has been a registered attorney since 1991. In the Shūgiin election in 1993 he was a candidate for the New Japan Party in the 5th constituency of Saitama (four seats) and was elected with the second highest percentage of votes. He then belonged to the Minshu no Kaze ("Wind of Democracy") faction and joined the New Sakigake Party in 1994 . In 1996 he helped found the Democratic Party . Since the 1996 election, Edano has run in the single constituency Saitama 5, which he lost in 1996 (re-election in the North Kantō proportional representation) and then won nine times in a row since 2000.

In the Democratic Party, Edano was from 1997 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2004 chairman of the political research council and as shadow cabinet secretary member of the shadow cabinet from 2002. In the Shūgiin he was a member of the budget committee and the special committee for the constitution.

Minister and Chief Cabinet Secretary

Edano at a press conference as Chief Cabinet Secretary shortly after the Tōhoku earthquake in 2011

In February 2010 he Prime Minister appointed Yukio Hatoyama "administrative renewal" (as "Minister of State at the Cabinet Office for Special Tasks" for 行政刷新 , Gyosei sasshin ) in his cabinet to Yoshito Sengoku to relieve that after the resignation of Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii in The previous month had taken over tasks from Fujii's successor Naoto Kan . Edano had already played a key role in the hearings of the "Conference for the Renewal of Administration" ( gyōsei sasshin kaigi ), which is supposed to review the budget for possible savings. He was one of the few members of the Democratic Party who openly expressed doubts about Secretary General Ichirō Ozawa's statements about the donation scandal early on .

After the resignation of Party Chairman Hatoyama and General Secretary Ozawa in June 2010, Hatoyama's successor, Naoto Kan, appointed Edano General Secretary of the Democratic Party. During his tenure, the Democratic Party lost the upper house majority in the July 2010 election . In September 2010 he was replaced by Katsuya Okada , but remained Deputy Secretary General. When the cabinet and party leadership were renewed in January 2011, Kan appointed him to his cabinet as successor to Yoshito Sengoku, head of the cabinet secretariat and state minister for affairs for Okinawa and the Northern Territories . As chief cabinet secretary, like after all important events for the cabinet and after every parliamentary session in the days after the Tōhoku earthquake in 2011, he regularly appeared before the public and provided information on the situation on the Fukushima nuclear disaster . He remained in office until the Kan cabinet was dismissed in September 2011.

On September 12, 2011, after the resignation of Yoshio Hachiro, he was appointed Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in the cabinet of Kan's successor Yoshihiko Noda . He remained a minister until the cabinet resigned in December 2012. In the nationwide election defeat of the Democrats in the Shūgiin election in 2012 , Edano was the only Democrat in Saitama to defend his constituency.

Again in the opposition

From September 2014 to September 2016, Edano was again General Secretary of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Progressive Party (Minshintō), under the chairmen Banri Kaieda and Katsuya Okada , in which the Democratic Party was absorbed in spring 2016. After the resignation of party leader Renhō Murata in July 2017, Edano ran for the next election of the chairman , but lost to Seiji Maehara . The latter then appointed him deputy chairman.

After Maehara announced in September 2017 that the Minshintō would not put up its own candidates for the 2017 Shūgiin election and assured members that they would support them if they ran for the conservative Kibō no Tō , its chairman Yuriko Koike announced that she would not accept all supporters of the Minshinto and examine each candidate country for its political views. Thereupon Edano stepped out of the Minshintō and founded the left - liberal Constitutional Democratic Party ( 立憲 民主党 Rikken Minshutō ; English The Constituional Democratic Party of Japan , CDP for short ). In the Shūgiin election she ran with 78 candidates and moved with 55 seats as the second largest party and strongest opposition party in the Shūgiin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 政治家 に 訊 く ： 枝 野 幸 男 . In: the-journal.jp. December 14, 2009. Retrieved October 14, 2017 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Edano tasked with polishing cabinet's image. In: Japan Times . February 11, 2010, accessed February 11, 2010 .
  3. ↑ 後任 経 産 相 に 枝 野 氏… 原 発 事故 対 応 で 即 戦 力 . In: Yomiuri Online. Yomiuri Shimbun- sha, September 12, 2011, archived from the original on July 22, 2012 ; Retrieved September 12, 2011 (Japanese).
  4. ^ Major opposition's liberal wing to form new group. (No longer available online.) In: The Mainichi . October 2, 2017, archived from the original on October 9, 2017 ; accessed on October 14, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ Shūgiin election 2017 , overview table of successful candidates by party
personal data
SURNAME Edano, Yukio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 枝 野 幸 男 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Utsunomiya , Tochigi Prefecture