Takeo Hiranuma

Takeo Hiranuma

Takeo Hiranuma ( Japanese 平沼 赳 夫 , Hiranuma Takeo ; born August 3, 1939 in Shibuya District , Tokyo , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a former Japanese politician. From 1980 to 2017 he was a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , for the constituency of Okayama 3 (before 1996 Okayama 1) for twelve terms . A longtime member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), he was a minister in several cabinets and chaired various Shūgiin committees before leaving the party in 2005 but returning to the LDP in 2015.

Hiranuma was after completing his studies at the law faculty of the Keiō University in 1962 employee of the textile company Nittō Bōseki , where he stayed until 1973. His first candidacies for Shūgiin in the then five-seat constituency Okayama 1 failed: 1976 as a non-party and 1979 for the LDP. From 1978 to 1980 he was Secretary of Agriculture Minister Ichirō Nakagawa . In the next attempt at the Shūgiin election in 1980 , he achieved the highest percentage of votes in the constituency and was re-elected four times in a row until the electoral reform, since then confirmed six times in the single constituency Okayama 3. In the LDP he joined the Nakagawa faction of Ichirō Nakagawa, which was later taken over by Shintarō Ishihara and finally joined the Fukuda faction in 1984 . In the 1990s he followed Shizuka Kamei to Shisuikai .

In 1987 Hiranuma became Parliamentary State Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Finance , in the 1990s he took over the chairmanship of various Shūgiin committees (Finance 1991, Agriculture 1993, Rules Committee 1996–1997). In the Cabinet Murayama he was the first minister from 1995 to 1996 as Minister of Transport. In 2000 he took over the MITI in the Mori II cabinet and also remained in the successor Ministry of the METI and under Mori's successor Jun'ichirō Koizumi until 2003 Minister.

In 2005 Hiranuma voted against Koizumi's post-privatization law and had to run as a non-party in the 2005 elections; the LDP listed Toshiko Abe as an "assassin" candidate, but Hiranuma clearly defended his constituency mandate. Unlike most of the post-privatization “rebels”, he did not return to the LDP and did not join the new “rebel” parties, the NVP or the NPJ . For the Shūgiin election in 2009 , he put together a separate group of candidates as the Hiranuma group instead . After the election he founded a parliamentary group with two other MPs.

In 2010 Hiranuma left the Hiranuma group and together with other former LDP politicians founded Tachiagare Nippon ("Stand up, Japan!"), Which he then led as chairman. At the beginning of 2012, Hiranuma announced together with Shizuka Kamei (NVP) and Shintarō Ishihara (non-party) the founding of a new party, which the initiators hoped would be joined by numerous conservative MPs from the two major parties. In November 2012 he founded the Taiyō no Tō ("Party of the Sun") together with Ishihara , which a few days later became the Nippon Ishin no Kai of Tōru Hashimoto, the former governor of Osaka. In the 2012 Shūgiin election , Hiranuma defended his constituency against the liberal democrat Toshiko Abe, winning one of only two Ishin no Kai constituency mandates outside of Osaka Prefecture. In 2014 he founded the Jisedai no Tō ("Party of the Next Generation") with Ishihara , in which he was party chairman. Hiranuma was chairman of the parliamentary group in the national parliament of the Nippon Kaigi (Nippon kaigi Kokkai giin kondankai) , which is considered revisionist , and which also includes Prime Minister Abe, a number of other ministers and numerous MPs, especially, but not only, the LDP.

For election in 2017 to Hiranuma retired from the House of Representatives. His son Shōjirō applied as one of two conservative candidates without an LDP nomination for the successor in the seat of Okayama 3, but was defeated by just under 4000 votes to Toshiko Abe, for whom the LDP had made an election recommendation and which was retrospectively nominated after the successful election .

family

Hiranuma is the natural son of the entrepreneur and politician Kyoshiro Hiranuma (born Nakagawa), who along with his son, Prime Minister Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma maternal, a biological great-great uncle Takeo Hiranumas adopted was. His great-grandfather, Yoshirō Hiranuma, was a lawyer and headed Waseda University . His paternal grandfather, Tomojirō Nakagawa , was governor of Gunma . His father-in-law was Yoshimitsu Tokugawa, the grandson of the last Shogun Yoshinobu Tokugawa and thus duke and member of the Kizokuin , the mansion, until the nobility was abolished in 1947 .

Web links

• Official website (Japanese, English)
• Kantei : Brief CV (Japanese ( Shift_JIS -codiert), English )
• kingendaikeizu.net: Tokugawa family , Hiranuma family (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Senkyo, election results of the 1976 Shūgiin election: constituency Okayama 1 ( memento of the original from February 6, 2016 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. 
2. ↑ The Senkyo, election result of the 1979 Shūgiin election: constituency Okayama 1 ( memento of the original from February 6, 2016 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. ↑ Kamei, Hiranuma, Ishihara to launch party in March. In: The Japan Times . January 28, 2012, accessed May 1, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Nippon Kaigi, February 28, 2013: 日本 会議 国会 議員 懇談 会 、 総 会 を 開 催。 皇室 制度 ・ 尖 閣 諸島 問題 に つ い て て 決議 を 採 択 - 櫻井 よ し こ 氏 が 講演
5. ↑ Hiranuma's website: Profile, other ( memento of the original from December 26th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ " Major conservative nationalist organizations in Japan" (Asia Policy Point - 2007) - English
7. ↑ 自 民 ・ 平沼赳夫 氏 が 政界 引退 へ 後 継 に に 次男 を 擁 立 方針 . In: Asahi Shimbun Digital. September 22, 2017. Retrieved December 2, 2017 (Japanese). 
8. ↑ Yomiuri Online : Election Results Shūgiin 2017, Okayama ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2017 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.