Hiroyuki Nagahama

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Hiroyuki Nagahama

Hiroyuki Nagahama ( Japanese 長 浜 博 行 , Nagahama Hiroyuki ; born October 20, 1958 in Sumida , Tokyo ) is a Japanese politician ( NJP → NFP → DPJ → DFP → DVP → independent → KDP ), senator for Chiba and was from October to December 2012 Minister of the Environment in the government of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda . Within the DPJ and DFP he was a member of the Noda group .

Life

Nagahama studied at Waseda University's Faculty of Politics and Economics and then attended the Matsushita Institute for Politics and Economics ( Matsushita Seikei Juku ). He then worked in the private sector (including for Bandai , Itōchū Shōji ), later he headed the Tokyo office of the Matsushita Institute. In 1992 he participated in the founding of the New Japan Party , for which he entered parliament in the 1993 parliamentary elections in the five-seat constituency of Chiba 4. In 1994 he became a member of the New Progressive Party .

Following the electoral reform, Nagahama was voted out of office in the 1996 election in the Chiba 8 single-seat constituency. In the 2000 elections he was able to win this constituency for the Democratic Party; three years later he ran in constituency 11 and was defeated by Eisuke Mori , but retained a seat on proportional representation in the block south kantō . In 2007 he resigned as a member of parliament and ran for one of Chiba's three open mandates in the Senate elections . He received over 660 thousand votes (25.2%, 1st place) and was thus elected for six years.

After the Democratic Party won a majority in the House of Representatives in 2009 and the resulting takeover of government, Nagahama was appointed Vice Minister alongside Ritsuo Hosokawa in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor , where he remained until September 2010. In September 2011 he became Deputy Head of the Cabinet Secretariat (political / Senate) alongside Tsuyoshi Saitō (political / House of Representatives) and Makoto Taketoshi (civil servant) when he took office in Noda . In the third cabinet reshuffle on October 1, 2012, he was appointed Environment Minister instead of Deputy Head of the Cabinet Secretariat.

In the 2013 Senate election , Nagahama was re-elected for a second term: he received 388,529 votes (16.3%) in Chiba and thus achieved the third-highest percentage of votes after Jun'ichi Ishii (LDP, 28.5%) and Toshirō Toyoda (LDP, 17 , 5%). In October 2018 he left the Democratic People's Party , a successor party to the DPJ, and resigned in December of the year of the Constitutionally-Democratic Party  of Yukio Edano  at. In 2019 he was re-elected for another six years in second place with 28.9% of the vote.

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  1. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , 2013 Senate Election Results: Chiba (accessed August 31, 2013)
  2. ↑ 長 浜 氏 ら 4 参 院 議員 が 立 民 入党 . In: Nihon Keizai Shimbun . December 25, 2018. Retrieved January 14, 2019 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Nagahama, Hiroyuki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 長 浜 博 行 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese senator
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Sumida , Tokyo