Hiroshige Seko

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Hiroshige Sekō, 2016

Hiroshige Sekō ( Japanese 世 耕 弘 成 , Sekō Hiroshige ; born November 9, 1962 in Osaka , Osaka prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( LDP , Hosoda faction ), since 1998 member of the upper house in the national parliament for the political family home of Wakayama (hometown in today's Shingū ) and was Minister of Economic Affairs in Abe's third and fourth cabinets from 2016 to 2019.

Sekō, the grandson of Kōichi Sekō ( Seiyūkai →… → LPJ →… → LDP), member of the lower house of Wakayama and economic planning minister in the late 1950s, and nephew of Masataka Sekō (LDP), member of the upper house of Wakayama and interior minister in the early 1980s Born in Osaka, where his grandfather, his father, his uncle and later he himself worked temporarily in the management of the Kinki University . He attended the secondary school affiliated with the Osaka School of Education and graduated from the Political and Economic Faculty of Waseda University in 1986. He then became an employee of NTT . In 1992 he completed a graduate degree at Boston University and then became head of the press department at NTT.

Hiroshige Sekō switched to active politics in the upper house by-election in Wakayama in November 1998 for his uncle, who died in September. He prevailed with an absolute majority against the NFP → LP politician and later Member of the Prefectural Parliament Shinsuke Hamada and a communist , who ran without party support with opposition support . In the regular upper house elections in 2001 , 2007 , 2013 and 2019 , Sekō was re-elected with absolute or even two-thirds majorities.

Sekō was 2003-04 (reshaped 1st and 2nd Koizumi cabinet) parliamentary state secretary in the Ministry of General Affairs (Ministry of the Interior), 2005-06 chairman of the associated upper house committee, for the first time from 2002 chairman of the LDP prefectural association Wakayama and later in the National Party among others from 2010 Vice General Secretary of the LDP Upper House Group and from 2012 PARC Chairman of the Upper House LDP. Shinzō Abe appointed him in his first reign in 2006 as advisor to the Prime Minister (naikaku sōri-daijin hosakan) for public relations / PR (kōhō) . In 2012 he became one of the three (usually two parliamentarians from the two chambers of parliament and one civil servant), after Abes took office again, as deputy head of the cabinet secretariat under Yoshihide Suga . Sekō held this position continuously until August 2016, when Abe appointed him to the head of the Ministry of Economy and Industry in a cabinet reshuffle ; from previous Motoo Hayashi , he also took over the the Cabinet Office be moved as "Minister for Special Affairs' responsibility for the organization for nuclear power compensation and reactor decommissioning ( Genshiryoku Songai Baisho, Hairo tō shien Kiko , Eng. NDF) as well as some additional tasks without an independent budget, in addition to the resumed attempt at diplomatic rapprochement with Vladimir Putin, newly created responsibility for economic cooperation with Russia. After the 2019 election, he was replaced by Isshū Sugawara in a cabinet reshuffle in September 2019 .

Sekō's wife Kumiko, who continues to appear as a politician under her maiden name as Kumiko Hayashi , was Shiga’s House of Lords MP for the competing Democratic Party from 2004 until she was elected in 2016 .

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SURNAME Seko, Hiroshige
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hiroshige, Sekō (full name); 世 耕 弘 成 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician (LDP, Hosoda faction)
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Osaka , Osaka Prefecture