Hirofumi Nakasone

Hirofumi Nakasone, 2015

Hirofumi Nakasone ( Japanese 中 曽 根 弘文 , Nakasone Hirofumi ; born November 28, 1945 in Takasaki , Gunma Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), member of the Sangiin , the upper house, and was his foreign minister from September 2008 to September 2009 Country. Within the LDP he belongs to the Ibuki faction .

Life

Nakasone is the eldest son of former Prime Minister and LDP Chairman Nakasone Yasuhiro . After graduating from Keio University , he worked from 1968 for Asahi Kasei (KK English. Asahi Chemical Corp. ).

In 1983 Nakasone became secretary to the prime minister, his father. In the 1986 election he was first elected to the Sangiin for the LDP and has been re-elected four times since then. Within the party, he joined the Nakasone faction of his father, after their later dissolution then the Watanabe-Kamei faction, today's Ibuki faction.

Nakasone first became State Secretary at MITI in 1990, and in 1993 he took over the chairmanship of the associated Sangiin Committee for the first time. In 1999 he was appointed minister of education and head of the science and technology authority in the Obuchi cabinet and remained minister until the 2000 Shūgiin election .

In 2005, Nakasone led a group of Sangiin MPs who, like his ex-faction chairman Shizuka Kamei, voted against Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi's post-privatization law . However, he gave his approval to the law after Koizumi dissolved the Shūgiin , the lower house, and there expelled the opponents of privatization, the so-called "rebels", from the LDP.

In September 2008, Tarō Asō Nakasone appointed foreign minister in his first cabinet , which he belonged to until his resignation in September 2009.

Nakasone is also Honorary Vice President of the Japanese Athletics Federation Nihon Rikuren . Like Prime Minister Abe and other cabinet and LDP party members, Nakasone is close to Nippon Kaigi , who is considered revisionist .

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• MEXT : Short CV (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reiji Yoshida: Election spurs Upper House posts reform rebels' flip-flop. In: The Japan Times. September 14, 2008, accessed September 26, 2008 . 
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated June 30, 2009 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. ↑ http://www.japan-press.co.jp/s/news/?id=4056 Pro-Yasukuni lineup features Aso Cabinet

predecessor	Office	successor
Masahiko Kōmura	Japanese Foreign Minister 2008–2009	Katsuya Okada