Hirotaka Ishihara

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Hirotaka Ishihara, 2014

Hirotaka Ishihara ( Japanese 石 原 宏 高 , Ishihara Hirotaka ; born June 19, 1964 in Zushi , Kanagawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the Japanese parliament , where he was the third party for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) . Tokyo Prefecture constituency .

Life

Ishihara, the third son of the writer, actor and politician Shintarō Ishihara (governor of Tokyo) and brother of LDP general secretary Nobuteru Ishihara (constituency of Tokyo 8), studied at the economics faculty of Keiō University . After his first year at university, he went to Boston to study abroad, where he stayed with Benigno Aquino Jr. , a friend of his father's, shortly before Aquino returned to the Philippines and was shot. After graduating, Ishihara worked for the Nippon Kōgyō Ginkō (English Industrial Bank of Japan, after the merger today Mizuho Financial Group ), for which he worked, among other things, in the branches in New York and Bangkok . In 2003, he left Mizuho Financial Group and turned to politics.

In the Shūgiin election 2003 Ishihara stood for the LDP in the constituency of Tokyo 3 against the democratic incumbent Jin Matsubara , but lost with 122 to 113 thousand votes. It was not until the LDP landslide victory in the “post-privatization election” in 2005 that Ishihara Matsubara was able to beat and moved into Shūgiin. There he was a member of the Fiscal Policy and Finance Committee and the Iraq Special Committee. In the LDP, he did not join any faction , but supported like the majority of the new LDP MPs in the dispute over the Koizumi succession in the election of party chairman 2006 Shinzō Abe (like Koizumi Machimura faction ). He also joined the inner-party conservative Dentō to Sōzō no Kai ( 伝 統 と 創造 の 会 , German about "Assembly for Tradition and Creation") by Tomomi Inada .

In the Shūgiin election in 2009 , Ishihara lost his constituency to Matsubara and, with a "loss rate" of 74.3%, also missed re-election in the Tokyo proportional representation. In 2012 he was able to prevail by just 2,000 votes ahead of Matsubara and returned to parliament for a second term. In September 2013 he became Parliamentary State Secretary ( daijin seimukan ) in the Foreign Ministry for the second Abe cabinet . In the 2014 election , Ishihara was still just over 4,000 votes behind Matsubara. In 2016, he became State Secretary ( fuku-daijin ) in the Cabinet Office for the reorganized Abe third cabinet .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Some LDP freshmen decide to support Abe. In: The Japan Times . August 30, 2006, accessed January 12, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Shūgiin Election Results 2014, single-seat constituencies, Tokyo 3
personal data
SURNAME Ishihara, Hirotaka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 石 原 宏 高 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Zushi , Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan