Goshi Hosono

Gōshi Hosono (2013)

Gōshi Hosono ( Japanese 細 野 豪 志 , Hosono Gōshi ; born August 21, 1971 in Ōmihachiman , Shiga Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( DPJ → DFP → non-party → Party of Hope → non-party → non-party member of the Nikai faction of the LDP ) and a member of parliament in the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , for the 5th constituency of Shizuoka .

Life

Career

Hosono studied at the law faculty of the University of Kyoto and then worked for the Sanwa sōgō kenkyūjo ( 三 和 総 合 研究所 , the "general Sanwa research institute", English Sanwa Research Institute , the think tank of the Sanwa Bank , today part of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group ).

In the Shūgiin election in 2000 , Hosono ran for the Democratic Party in the 7th constituency of Shizuoka (after the reorganization of the constituencies since 2002: 5th constituency), was able to defeat the incumbent, the former building minister Yoshiaki Kibe ( LDP ), by around 16,000 votes. He then won the new constituency 5 three times against former Defense Minister Toshitsugu Saitō (LDP). In the Democratic Party, he was chairman of the Shizuoka Prefectural Association from 2003 to 2005, and in the National Party he was deputy general secretary from 2009.

minister

Hosono as Environment Minister (2011)

In 2011, under Prime Minister Naoto Kan, after a cabinet reshuffle in January, he first became special advisor to the Prime Minister, and in June then Minister of State for Consumers and Food Safety ( Kan cabinet (2nd reshuffle) ). During the nuclear disaster in Fukushima , Kan appointed him as head of the joint crisis team of the government and nuclear power plant operator Tepco , so that his area of ​​responsibility was to be responsible for "education about energy saving" ( setsuden keihatsu ) and "normalization and relapse prevention of nuclear power accidents" ( gempatsu jiko no shūsoku oyobi saihatsu bōshi ) was expanded. After Kan's replacement by Yoshihiko Noda , he was appointed Environment Minister in his cabinet from September 2, 2011, as well as the newly established post of State Minister for the Organization in Support of Compensation for Nuclear Power Damage ( genshiryoku songai baishō shien kikō ). During the third cabinet reshuffle on October 1, 2012, he lost this post. He then headed the party's political committee .

In the nationwide democratic election defeat in 2012 , Hosono was able to confidently defend the Shizuoka 5 constituency with around 59% of the vote against Takeru Yoshikawa (LDP, 32%).

Again in the opposition

After losing government in 2012, Hosono was General Secretary of the Democratic Party under Noda's successor Banri Kaieda until 2013. Since 2014 he has led his own faction with the Jiseikai ( 自 誓 会 ). In the 2014 Shūgiin election , he was re-elected with over 10,000 fewer votes, but again with around 59% when the turnout fell. In the election of the party chairman in 2015, he ran for Kaieda's successor and led the first ballot, which included the pre-election results from the prefectures and the votes of prefectural and local MPs, but missed an absolute majority and was defeated in the runoff, in which only the national ones MPs are entitled to vote, Katsuya Okada . Under Okada, he was again chairman of the political committee from 2015 to 2016.

In 2016 the Democratic Party was absorbed into the Democratic Progressive Party (DFP). From 2016 to 2017 Hosono was one of the three deputy party leaders there. In August 2017, when there were signs that a new political alliance could be formed around Tokyo’s governor Yuriko Koike at the national level, he announced that he would be leaving the party. For the upcoming elections, he became a founding member of Kibō no Tō in September 2017, in which the entire DFP was to merge soon after, according to the party leadership's original plans, but which only accepted part of the members as a result. In the 2017 election , he received 54.8% of the vote. Before the merger of Kibō no Tō and DFP to form the People's Democratic Party  , Hosono left the party in April 2018.

Joined the Nikai faction

In January 2019 Hosono announced as party less "special member" of the Nikai faction of Toshihiro Nikai to want to join; the faction accepted the application on January 31st. Hosono has long-term plans to fully join the LDP. The PARC chairman of the LDP, Fumio Kishida, criticized Nikai's approach because the LDP in Hosono's constituency had previously nominated Takeru Yoshikawa, a member of the Kishida faction, as an LDP candidate and Hosono had ruled out a change of his constituency.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norimitsu Onishi and Martin Fackler: In Nuclear Crisis, Crippling Mistrust ( Memento June 24, 2011 on WebCite ) New York Times, June 12, 2011 (English).
2. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Shūgiin election results 2012, Shizuoka ( Memento of the original from November 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Shūgiin Election Results 2014, Shizuoka
4. ^ Ex-minister Hosono to leave the opposition Democratic Party. In: The Japan Times . August 4, 2017, accessed December 19, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Yuriko Koike's new party, Kibo no To, vows to alter Japan's political landscape. In: The Japan Times . September 27, 2017, accessed December 19, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Shūgiin election results 2017, Shizuoka ( memento of the original from October 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
7. ↑ 希望 ・ 細 野 氏 「無 所属 で で き る こ と を 見 極 め た い」 新 党 参加 を 否定 . In: Sankei Shimbun . April 21, 2018, Retrieved November 1, 2018 (Japanese). 
8. ↑ 無 所属 の 細 野 氏 が 二階 派 に 入会 自民党 入 り 目 指 す 意向 も . In: Asahi Shimbun . January 31, 2019, accessed February 16, 2019 (Japanese). 
9. ↑ 「二階 さ ん も や り 過 ぎ だ」 細 野 氏 の 派閥 入会 、 軋 轢 生 む . In: Asahi Shimbun . February 6, 2019, Retrieved February 16, 2019 (Japanese).