Fumio Kishida

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Fumio Kishida (2017)

Fumio Kishida ( Japanese 岸 田 文 雄 , Kishida Fumio ; born July 29, 1957 in Minami-ku , Hiroshima ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), where he has led the Kishida faction since 2012 and has been PARC chairman since 2017 , and former Foreign Minister . He has been a member of the Shūgiin (for the 1st constituency of Hiroshima) since 1993 .

Life

Kishida studied law at Waseda University , where he graduated in 1982. He then worked for the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB, 日本 長期 信用 銀行 ) for five years . From 1987 he was secretary of his father, the Shūgiin MP Fumitake Kishida . After his death in 1992 he was his successor in the 1993 Shūgiin election .

From 1999 to 2000 Kishida was State Secretary in the Ministry of Construction , from 2001 to 2002 in the Ministry of Education . Prime Minister Shinzō Abe appointed him in the cabinet reshuffle shortly before his resignation in 2007 as Minister of State for Affairs of Okinawa and the Northern Territories , Deregulation, Quality of Life, Science and Technology. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda took Kishida in September 2007 in his cabinet , but replaced him in the cabinet reshuffle in August 2008. On December 26, 2012, he became foreign minister in the Cabinet Shinzō Abe II and was in the August 2017 third reshuffle of the Cabinet Shinzō Abe III of Tarō Kōno replaced. From July 28 to August 3, 2017, he was also Acting Minister of Defense after Tomomi Inada had previously resigned from this post. Like Prime Minister Abe and other cabinet and LDP party members, Kishida is close to Nippon Kaigi , who is considered revisionist .

Kishida's grandfather was MP Kishida ( 岸 田 正 記 ); his aunt was the wife of Hiroshima Governor Miyazawa Hiroshi , the younger brother of Prime Minister Miyazawa Kiichi .

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  1. ↑ http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2994558
personal data
SURNAME Kishida, Fumio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 岸 田 文 雄 (Japanese); Kishida Fumio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Minami (Hiroshima) , Hiroshima , Japan