Eisuke Mori

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Eisuke Mori

Eisuke Mori ( Japanese 森 英 介 , Mori Eisuke ; born August 31, 1948 in Katsuura , Chiba Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and former Justice Minister of his country. He is a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house, for the 11th constituency of Chiba and belongs to the Asō faction within the party .

Life

Mori is the eldest son of former MP and Environment Minister Mori Yoshihide . After completing his engineering studies at Tohoku University , he worked from 1976 for Kawasaki Jukogyo ( Engl. Kawasaki Heavy Industries ). In 1984 he received his doctorate from Nagoya University . He was mainly concerned with the technology of nuclear power plants.

In the 1990 Shūgiin election , Mori was elected to parliament for the first time, and has won the Chiba 11 constituency six times since it was set up in 1996. In 1999 he took over the deputy chairmanship of the parliamentary affairs committee of the LDP, in 2001 he became the deputy general secretary. From 2003 to 2004 he was State Secretary ( fuku-daijin ) in the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Affairs before he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Political Research Committee ( PARC ) of the LDP.

In September 2008, Prime Minister Tarō Asō Mori appointed Minister of Justice to his first cabinet . In an interview shortly after taking office on the question of the execution of the death penalty , Mori said that he considered it right to have those sentenced to death executed after six months in principle and that he would continue the line of his predecessors in this regard. In 2007, most executions in Japan had been carried out in 30 years, with Mori's immediate predecessors Yasuoka and Hatoyama authorizing 16 hangings between August 2007 and September 2008. In January 2009, Mori authorized the sixth execution of his term, maintaining the high execution rate of his predecessors. Three more death sentences were carried out in July 2009. He remained a minister until the resignation of the Aso cabinet in September 2009.

Since 2013, Mori has been chairing the Shūgiin's newly established special committee for the "investigation of nuclear power issues" ( genshiryoku mondai chōsa tokubetsu-iinkai ).

family

Mori's grandfather was the Shūgiin MP and founder of the Mori Corporation , Nobuteru Mori . His uncles Satoru and Kiyoshi also belonged to the Shūgiin, his aunt Mutsuko was the wife of Prime Minister Takeo Miki .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minoru Matsutani: Justice Ministry should 'respect' rulings on executions, Mori says. In: Japan Times. October 3, 2008, accessed October 3, 2008 .
  2. ↑ Shane McLeod: Hangings take Japanese execution figures to 30-year high. In: ABC News. December 7, 2007, accessed October 3, 2008 .
  3. ↑ Minoru Matsutani: Four killers sent to the gallows. In: Japan Times. January 20, 2009, accessed June 11, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Japan executes death row inmates. In: BBC News. July 28, 2009, accessed July 28, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Mori, Eisuke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 森 英 介 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Katsuura (Chiba) , Chiba Prefecture , Japan