Hirokazu Matsuno

Hirokazu Matsuno, 2016

Hirokazu Matsuno ( Japanese 松 野 博 一 , Matsuno Hirokazu ; born September 13, 1962 in the city of Kisarazu , Chiba Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( LDP , Hosoda faction ), member of the national lower house for constituency 3 of Chiba prefecture and since 2016 Minister of Education and Science in the reorganized Abe third cabinet .

Matsuno, a graduate of the Faculty of Law at Waseda University , became an employee of the chemical and cosmetic products manufacturer Lion [KK, engl. Corp.], which he left again in 1988. He then visited the Matsushita seikei juku , the academy for executives in politics and business founded by the Matsushita-Denki-Sangyō Group (today: Panasonic).

In the 1996 general election , Matsuno ran for the LDP in the new single-mandate constituency of Chiba 3 and was relatively narrowly defeated (34.5% to 39.9%) by the former Liberal Democrat Masayuki Okajima ( NFP ). In the 2000 election , he won the second attempt against Okajima (now Conservative Party ) and entered the lower house. He then lost the constituency in 2003 and 2009 to Okajima's son Kazumasa ( Democratic Party ), but was re-elected in the South Kantō proportional representation block; In 2005, 2012 and 2014 he won Chiba 3.

For the government, Matsuno was Parliamentary State Secretary ( daijinseimukan ) in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor from 2006 to 2007 ( Abe I cabinet ) , from 2008 to 2009 ( Fukuda , Asō ) State Secretary ( fukudaijin ) in the Ministry of Culture and Science, in the House of Commons from 2012 to 2013 chairman of the culture and science committee, in the party among other things vice chairman of the committee for parliamentary affairs (2013/14, 2015/16) and vice general secretary (2014/15). In 2016 Shinzō Abe appointed him to the cabinet as the successor to Hiroshi Hase .

Web links

• Website (japanese)
• Shūgiin: MP, Matsuno Hirokazu (Japanese)
• Kantei : Minister in the transformed 97th cabinet, Matsuno Hirokazu (Japanese, English , Chinese )