Hakubun Shimomura

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Shimomura in June 2010 at an event of the conservative parliamentary group Sōsei Nippon ( 創 生 「日本」 ) at Ikebukuro station

Hakubun Shimomura ( Japanese 下 村 博 文 , Shimomura Hakubun ; born May 23, 1954 in Kurabuchi , Gunma County (today: Takasaki ), Gunma Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( Machimura faction ), since 1996 a member of Shūgiin , the Lower house of the national parliament, for the 11th constituency of Tokyo and was Minister of Education and Science in the second (including reshuffle ) and third Abe cabinet from 2012 to 2015 .

Shimomura, a graduate of Waseda University's Faculty of Education , ran unsuccessfully for the New Liberal Club in the 1985 election to the Tokyo Prefectural Parliament in Itabashi . The second attempt in 1989 he was elected for the first time as an independent with the support of the DSP , the Social Democratic Federation and the Progressive Party, and was confirmed in office for the LDP in 1993 .

In the 1996 Shūgiin election , Shimomura switched to national politics. In the newly created one-mandate constituency Tokyo 11, he prevailed with 30.1% of the vote against four other candidates, and has since defended the constituency five times in a row. In the LDP he joined the Mitsuzuka faction (the later Mori, Machimura faction).

In government positions Shimomura came under the cabinets of Jun'ichirō Koizumi (Machimura faction): In 2002 Shimomura was Parliamentary State Secretary ( Daijinseimukan ) in the Ministry of Justice , from 2004 to 2005 in the Ministry of Culture and Science. In the first cabinet of Koizumi's successor Shinzō Abe (Machimura faction) he became deputy head of the cabinet secretariat in 2006 .

In the second Abe cabinet, Shimomura became a minister for the first time in 2012 and took over the Ministry of Culture and Science. In interviews when he took office, he said that there was a need for greater emphasis on Japanese culture and tradition in education; the 2012 LDP election manifesto envisaged revising the approval process for history books . Shimomura is also a member of the Nippon Kaigi, which is classified as revisionist .

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  1. ↑ Masami Ito: Rightwing minister seeks to radically revamp education system. In: The Japan Times . December 30, 2012, accessed February 1, 2013 .
  2. ^ " Abe's reshuffle promotes right-wingers" - Korea Joongang Daily - 2014/09/05
personal data
SURNAME Shimomura, Hakubun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 下 村 博 文 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Kurabuchi , Gunma-gun , Gunma Prefecture