Hirohisa Fujii

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Hirohisa Fujii

Hirohisa Fujii ( Japanese 藤井 裕 久 , Fujii Hirohisa ; born June 24, 1932 in Tokyo , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a former Japanese politician of the Democratic Party and a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house. He was twice finance minister of his country. Within the party, he belonged to the Ozawa group of former members of the Liberal Party around Ichirō Ozawa .

After studying law at Tokyo University , Fujii was appointed to the Treasury in 1955 . For the chief cabinet secretaries Noboru Takeshita and Susumu Nikadō he was in 1971 and 1972 secretary in the cabinet secretariat . In 1973 he left the Ministry of Finance for good and switched to politics.

In the election for Sangiin, the upper house, in 1977 , Fujii was elected to parliament for the first time as a candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the national constituency with the 45th share of the vote. In 1981 he became parliamentary state secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Finance, in 1984 chairman of the finance committee in Sangiin. In the Shūgiin election in 1986 Fujii ran in the 3rd constituency of Kanagawa (4 seats), but received only the fifth highest percentage of votes. In the second attempt in 1990 he managed to move into the Shūgiin with the fourth-highest percentage of votes. After the electoral reform, Fujii was a MP for the 14th constituency of Kanagawa from 1996 . Voted out in 2005, he initially announced his withdrawal from politics, but returned to parliament in 2007 as a replacement in the South Kanto proportional representation. He was re-elected there in 2009 .

In 1993 Fujii left the LDP and switched to the Renewal Party . During the anti-LDP coalition he was finance minister in the Hosokawa and Hata cabinets . After the failure of the coalition, he belonged to the New Progress Party in the 1990s, to the Liberal Party and finally from 2003 to the Democratic Party. There he was, among other things, general secretary, "executive chairman" ( daihyō daikō ) and most recently from 2007 one of the "highest advisors" ( saikō komon ) and chairman of the research council for tax policy ( zaisei-chōsakai-chō ).

In 2009, Fujii was appointed finance minister to his cabinet by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama . After the draft budget for the 2010 fiscal year was passed in the cabinet, but before the budget debates in parliament that began in January 2010, Fujii declared that he intended to resign for health reasons. In order to be able to pass the budget - the largest in Japanese history to date - quickly, Prime Minister Hatoyama asked Fujii to remain in office. However, on January 6, 2010, Hatoyama accepted Fujii's resignation. Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan succeeded him a day later. A year later, in January 2011, Naoto Kan, now party chairman and prime minister, appointed him as deputy chief cabinet secretary in a cabinet reshuffle , and then in March 2011 as special advisor to the prime minister. After Kan's successor Yoshihiko Noda took office as party chairman-prime minister, Fujii was one of the “highest advisors” ( saikō komon ) of the Democratic Party.

In the 2012 Shūgiin election , Fujii no longer stood as a candidate and again declared his retirement from politics.

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  1. ↑ 参議院> 第 11 回 参議院 議員 選 挙> 全国 区 . (No longer available online.) In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures) September 17, 2008, archived from the original on February 3, 2019 ; Retrieved January 5, 2010 (Japanese). 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 / www.senkyo.janjan.jp
  2. ↑ 衆議院> 第 39 回 衆議院 議員 選 挙> 神奈川 県> 神奈川 3 区 . (No longer available online.) In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures) September 17, 2008, archived from the original on February 3, 2019 ; Retrieved September 11, 2009 (Japanese). 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 / www.senkyo.janjan.jp
  3. ↑ Ailing finance chief wants to step down. But Hatoyama asks 77-year-old Fujii to stay on. In: The Japan Times . January 6, 2010, accessed January 5, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Kan succeeds Fujii as finance minister. Ozawa said to have approved of Hatoyama's choice. In: The Japan Times . January 7, 2010, accessed January 7, 2010 .
  5. ^ Clash with Ozawa said behind resignation. In: The Japan Times . January 7, 2010, accessed January 7, 2010 .
  6. ↑ 藤井 裕久氏 、 政界 引退 へ… 土肥 隆 一 氏 も 不 出馬 . In: Yomiuri Shimbun Online. November 30, 2012, Retrieved January 1, 2013 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Fujii, Hirohisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 藤井 裕 久 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo (city) , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan