Hideo Hiraoka

Hideo Hiraoka, 2011

Hideo Hiraoka ( Japanese 平 岡 秀 夫 , Hiraoka Hideo ; born January 14, 1954 in Iwakuni , Yamaguchi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician. From 2000 to 2012 he was a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , most recently for the 2nd constituency of Yamaguchi as a member of the Democratic Party , in which he led a faction together with Shōichi Kondō , the Hiraoka Kondō group . From 2011 to 2012 he was Minister of Justice .

Hiraoka graduated from the Tokyo University Faculty of Law in 1976 and then became a civil servant in the Treasury Department . In his civil service career, he worked, among other things, in the Japanese embassy in India, in the legislative office of the cabinet and in the national tax office, in authorities and branch offices of the finance ministry, he took on various department head positions. In 1998 he registered as a lawyer and shortly thereafter took up a political career: in 1999 he ran for the mayor's office in Iwakuni, but was defeated by Katusuke Ihara, a former official of the Ministry of Labor .

In the Shūgiin election in 2000 , Hiraoka ran for the Democratic Party in the constituency of Yamaguchi 2 and was able to surpass ex-Economics Minister Shinji Satō ( LDP ) by around 7,000 votes. In 2005 he just lost the constituency to Yoshihiko Fukuda (LDP), but was re-elected through the Chūgoku proportional representation. When Fukuda resigned in 2008 for his (successful) candidacy in the mayoral election in Iwakuni, Hiraoka won back his constituency in the by-election and was able to defend it in the 2009 regular election. In 2002 and 2006 he was a member of the “next cabinet”, the shadow cabinet of the Democratic Party, and was vice-chairman of important party bodies on several occasions.

In June 2010, Hiraoka became Secretary of State ( fukudaijin ) in the Cabinet Office under the Kan Cabinet , then at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications . In September 2011 he was appointed justice minister to the Noda cabinet, and was replaced by Toshio Ogawa in January 2012 when the cabinet was reshuffled . In the Shūgiin election in 2012 he lost the 2nd constituency to Nobuo Kishi ( Liberal Democratic Party ), until then a Sangiin member and brother of LDP chairman Shinzō Abe (1st constituency), and failed with a constituency loss rate of 50.5% in eighth place 18 candidates on the DPJ list place 1 also a re-election in the Chūgoku block clearly.

In the by-election in Yamaguchi for Sangiin , the upper house of the national parliament, Hiraoka applied as a formally independent candidate with election recommendations by the Democratic Party and Midori no Kaze and support from the Social Democratic Party for the seat vacated by Nobuo Kishi's resignation. He was defeated the former long-time mayor of Shimonoseki Kiyoshi Ejima (LDP), the son of the former Sangiin MP for Yamaguchi, Atsushi Ejima .

In the Shūgiin election in 2014 he ran again for the Democratic Party in constituency 2, defeated Kishi a little less clearly, but still far from being re-elected in the bloc (Kishi 58.4%, Hiraoka 34.9% → constituency loss rate 59.7% → Sixth of nine democratic double candidates on the list; Keisuke Tsumura from Okayama won the second and last seat of the Democrats in the proportional representation in Chūgoku in 2014 with a constituency loss rate of 79.9% )

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hiraoka to run as independent. In: The Japan Times . March 22, 2013, accessed March 21, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Election results 2014, majority election, Yamaguchi, constituency 2 ( Memento of the original from March 1, 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. 
3. ^ Yomiuri Shimbun : 2014 election results, proportional representation, Chūgoku, Democratic Party