Koichi Hagiuda

Kōichi Hagiuda at the Tokyo International Film Festival 2019

Kōichi Hagiuda ( Japanese 萩 生 田 光 一 Hagiuda Kōichi ; born August 31, 1963 in Hachiōji ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( Hosoda faction ), member of  the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , for the constituency of Tokyo 24 and acting minister for Education, culture, sports, science and technology .

Life

Hagiuda was born on August 31, 1963 in Hachiōji and studied until 1987 at the commercial science faculty of Meiji University . During his student days he was secretary to an LDP local politician and a member of the Junior Chamber International . In 1991 he stood as an LDP candidate for the election of the Hachiōji City Council and was then re-elected three times. In 2001 he was elected to the Tokyo Prefectural Parliament. For the 2003 general election he ran in the Tokyo 24 constituency and narrowly prevailed against the DPJ mandate holder Yukihiko Akutsu and two other candidates (Hagiuda 44.3%; Akutsu 43.4%). Akutsu was able to continue to belong to the House of Commons with a sekihairitsu ("loss rate") of 98.1% via the Tokyo proportional representation. It was not until 2005 that Hagiuda was so clearly re-elected that Akutsu left parliament. Within the party, Hagiuda was appointed Deputy General Secretary ( fuku-kanjichō ) in 2007.

He held his first government post from 2008 to 2009 in the reshaped Fukuda cabinet and then in the Asō cabinet as "Parliamentary State Secretary" in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology. In the 2009 general election, which was devastating for the LDP , he lost the constituency to Akutsu (Akutsu 49.5%; Hagiuda 40.5%) and left the lower house. Then he was up to the 2012 election as a visiting professor at Chiba Kagaku Daigaku ( english Chiba Institute of Science ) and returned in December 2012 back to parliament. In the election he was able to clearly prevail against his four competitors (Hagiuda 44.2%; Akutsu 22.1%). Under the new Prime Minister and LDP Chairman Shinzō Abe he was appointed Deputy Secretary General ( hittō-fuku-kanjichō ) and special advisor to the party chairman in the LDP . In 2014 he was re-elected and in 2015 appointed Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary in the third Abe Cabinet , which was reorganized for the first time . During the cabinet reshuffle in August 2017 , he moved back to the party and was again Deputy Secretary General ( kanjichō-daikō ). In the election in October of that year he was elected for the fifth time.

Prime Minister Shinzō Abe appointed Hagiuda Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Abe's fourth cabinet, which was reorganized for the second time in September 2019 .

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)