Hirohiko Izumida
Hirohiko Izumida ( Japanese 泉 田 裕 彦 , Izumida Hirohiko ; born September 15, 1962 in Kamo , Niigata Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and has been a member of the House of Representatives for the 5th constituency of Niigata Prefecture since 2017 . From 2004 to 2016 he was governor of Niigata.
Life
After graduating from the Law Faculty of Kyoto University in 1987, Izumida became a civil servant in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ). In 1992 he moved to the economic planning authority. In 1994 he was a guest researcher at the University of British Columbia for a year . He then returned to the ministerial bureaucracy and worked, among other things, as head of the ministerial secretariat at MITI, in the successor Ministry, METI, and for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport . In 2003 he temporarily left the central government and worked in the governor's office of Gifu .
In 2004 Izumida switched to politics to run for the successor of the independent governor Ikuo Hirayama in his home prefecture Niigata . With the support of the national governing parties LDP and Kōmeitō , he won the election on October 17, 2004 with 344,904 votes and almost 50,000 votes ahead of Taga Hidetoshi, who was supported by the Social Democrats . A few days later, two days before he took office, the Niigata Chūetsu earthquake struck, killing 40 and causing severe damage to the infrastructure of the prefecture. The care of the several thousand evacuees and the repair of the damage largely determined Izumida's activity as governor at the beginning. The Niigata Chūetsu coastal earthquake in 2007 also fell during his tenure.
Izumida was re-elected for a second term on October 10, 2008 with 83.25% of the vote against the CPY- supported candidate Eizo Yamazaki. In 2012 he was confirmed for a third with over 90% of the votes. In 2016 he no longer competed.
Izumida moved into national politics in the 2017 general election , where he ran for the LDP in Niigata's 5th constituency. The seat had been vacant since the death of Tadayoshi Nagashima (LDP). Izumida received 51.8% of the vote, beating the former mayor of Uonuma Etsuko Ōdaira (44.9%), who was supported by LP and SDP .
Web links
- Support association for Hirohiko Izumida / website as MP (Japanese)
- Official website as governor (Japanese)
- Brief curriculum vitae at the research institute of METI, the RIETI (English)
- LDP: Member of the National Parliament, Izumida Hirohiko (Japanese, English )
Individual evidence
- ^ Yomiuri Shimbun : Election Results Shūgiin 2017, Niigata 5
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Izumida, Hirohiko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 泉 田裕彦 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kamo (Niigata) , Niigata Prefecture , Japan |