Fukushirō Nukaga

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Fukushirō Nukaga on a visit to Washington on April 23, 2006

Fukushirō Nukaga ( Japanese 額 賀 福 志 郎 , Nukaga Fukushirō ; born January 11, 1944 in Namegata ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and former minister. Since 1983 he has been a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , (currently) for the constituency of Ibaraki 2 and headed the Heisei Kenkyūkai within the LDP from 2009 to 2018 .

Life

After studying at Waseda University , he first worked as a journalist for the Sankei Shimbun from 1968 , which he left in 1980 to go into politics. In 1983 he was elected to the House of Commons for the LDP in the 2nd constituency of his home prefecture Ibaraki and joined the Tanaka faction, a forerunner of today's Takeshita faction.

Nukaga is primarily active in two fields: financial and economic policy and defense policy. In 1990 he became parliamentary state secretary at MITI , from 2000 to 2001 he was chairman of the economic planning authority and in 2001 he was state minister for economic and financial policy for a month, when he resigned because of a bribery scandal. In 1998 and from 2005 to 2006, Nukaga was the head of the Defense Agency (the penultimate before it was promoted to a ministry).

In August 2007, Nukaga was appointed Minister of Finance by Prime Minister Shinzō Abe . After Abe's resignation a few weeks later, Nukaga initially announced that he wanted to run for party and government chairmanship himself. He withdrew his candidacy in favor of Yasuo Fukuda , in whose cabinet he remained finance minister. In the cabinet reshuffle in August 2008, he was replaced by Bunmei Ibuki .

During the bribery scandal surrounding the former Secretary of State Moriya and the defense company Yamada Yōkō in autumn 2007, allegations were made against Fukushirō Nukaga, who, however, denied having accepted favors from company representatives.

In 2009, after Yūji Tsushima's retirement from politics , Nukaga took over the chairmanship of his faction, which, despite heavy losses in the 2009 general election, was the second largest faction in the party. In 2018, under pressure from several faction members, he passed the chairmanship to Wataru Takeshita .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kyodo News, January 29, 2001: 2ND LD: Nukaga resigns over KSD scandal, Aso takes over ( Memento from July 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Kyodo News, October 31, 2007: Nukaga, Yamasaki deny links to trader (Engl.)
  3. ↑ 「竹 下 派」 が 発 足 額 賀 氏 か ら 亘 氏 に 会長 交代 . In: Nihon Keizai Shimbun . April 19, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2018 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Nukaga, Fukushirō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 額 賀 福 志 郎 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Namegata