Hidenao Nakagawa

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Hidenao Nakagawa, 1996

Hidenao Nakagawa ( Japanese 中 川 秀 直 , Nakagawa Hidenao ; born February 2, 1944 in Shinjuku , Tokyo Prefecture as Hidenao Satō ( 佐藤 秀 直 , Satō Hidenao )) is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house . Among other things, he was co-chairman of the Machimura faction , minister and LDP general secretary.

Life

After studying law at Keiō University , which he graduated in 1966, Nakagawa worked for the business newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun . In 1973 he left the newspaper to work as a secretary for his father-in-law, Shūgiin MP Nakagawa Shunji . In the Shūgiin election in 1976 he was elected for the first time as a candidate for the New Liberal Club in the 2nd constituency of Hiroshima , the constituency of his father-in-law. After being voted out of office in 1979, he left the New Liberal Club and joined the LDP, for which he was re-elected in 1980 as the candidate with the most votes. He was then confirmed eight times, only in the Shūgiin election in 1990 he lost his seat again and returned in 1993 (again with the most votes). From 1996 he ran after the electoral reform in the new one-mandate constituency of Hiroshima 4.

In the 1980s, Nakagawa was, among other things, Parliamentary State Secretary ( 政務 次 官 , seimujikan ) at the State Land Authority and the MITI, as well as chairman of the Science and Technology Committee in the Shūgiin. In 1994 he became special advisor to Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama ( SPJ ), and a year later he became deputy general secretary of the LDP. In the first cabinet of Ryūtarō Hashimoto he was first minister in 1996 as head of the authority for science and technology. Under Yoshirō Mori , he was finally given the key post of chief cabinet secretary in 2000 , but had to resign after a few months because of a sex scandal and allegations of being associated with right-wing extremist organizations .

Under the party leadership of Jun'ichirō Koizumi Nakagawa was chairman of the Political Research Council (PARC) of the LDP from 2005 to 2006, then he became LDP general secretary under Shinzō Abe . After the election defeat in the Sangiin election in 2007 , he announced his resignation and was replaced as Secretary General by Tarō Asō in the following cabinet reshuffle . After Nobutaka Machimura was appointed Chief Cabinet Secretary, Nakagawa co-chaired the Machimura faction with Shūzen Tanigawa that same year , which he held until 2009.

In July 2009, after the LDP defeat in the prefectural parliamentary elections in Tokyo , Nakagawa initiated a petition to open a general assembly of LDP MPs from both chambers to discuss a possible replacement of the party chairman and Prime Minister Tarō Asō before the new elections planned for August 30, 2009 to discuss. In the beginning, 133 MPs signed, more than the necessary third of the MPs. However, the party leadership managed to reinterpret the purpose of the meeting.

For the 2012 Shūgiin election , Nakagawa withdrew from politics. His LDP candidacy in the constituency of Hiroshima 4 was successfully taken over by his son Toshinao - Hidenao Nakagawa had only remained a member of parliament in 2009 through the Chūgoku proportional representation.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New blow for Japanese Government. In: BBC News. October 27, 2000, accessed June 8, 2008 .
  2. ↑ Japanese PM 'will not stand down'. In: BBC News. July 30, 2007, accessed June 8, 2008 .
  3. ↑ Aso attacked on all fronts. LDP feuds; opposition smells blood. In: The Japan Times . July 15, 2009, accessed July 17, 2009 .
  4. ↑ More in LDP join chorus to oust Aso. Party bigwigs lead drive to pick new leader before election. In: The Japan Times . July 16, 2009, accessed July 17, 2009 .
  5. ↑ Aso foes unlikely to block dissolution. Petition by third of LDP seeking ouster appears destined to fail. In: The Japan Times . July 17, 2009, accessed July 17, 2009 .
  6. ↑ 中 川 秀 直 氏 が 引退 表明 衆院 選 不 出馬 、 世代 交代 理由 に . In: Chūgoku Shimbun Online. October 1, 2012, Retrieved January 1, 2013 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Nakagawa, Hidenao
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 中 川 秀 直 (Japanese); 佐藤 秀 直 (Japanese, maiden name); Satō Hidenao (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Shinjuku , Tokyo Prefecture, Japan