Hisaoki Kamei

Hisaoki Kamei

Hisaoki Kamei ( Japanese 亀 井 久 興 , Kamei Hisaoki ; born November 8, 1939 in Shibuya , Tokyo Prefecture ; registered in Tsuwano , Shimane Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician. Until 2009 he was a member of the Shūgiin and General Secretary of the New People's Party .

After studying political science at the Gakushūin , Kamei joined Nippon Yūsen in 1962 . A year later he became secretary to Shūgiin MP Matsuda Takechiyo . From 1967 he worked for Yoshida Kōgyō , where he became a board member in 1969.

In 1974 Kamei won a seat in the Sangiin as a candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and was re-elected for a second term in 1980. In 1978 he became State Secretary in the Ministry of Post for the first time, and in 1982 he was appointed Chairman of the Committee on International Trade and Industry for the first time.

In the Shūgiin election in 1990 , Kamei was elected to the Shūgiin for the first time in the Shimane constituency and has since been re-elected five times after the constituency reform of 1994 in the 3rd Shimane constituency. In the party, Kamei initially belonged to the Kōchikai , in 1999 he was one of the founders of the Taiyūkai of Yōhei Kōno . From 1997 to 1998 Kamei was the head of the State Land Ministry in the 2nd Cabinet of Ryūtarō Hashimoto .

In 2002 the number of electoral districts in Shimane was reduced to two, the inner-party race for the candidacy in the 2nd constituency of Shimane lost Kamei to Wataru Takeshita , the brother of ex-Prime Minister Takeshita Noboru . In 2003 he was re-elected through the Chūgoku proportional representation. Before the Shūgiin election in 2005 , Kamei left the LDP as an opponent of the post-privatization planned by Prime Minister Koizumi and became co-founder and general secretary of the New People's Party. He described Koizumi's politics as "authoritarian". Kamei ran in the 2nd constituency against Takeshita, but received only the second highest percentage of votes and was again only re-elected via the proportional representation list.

In 2009 Kamei lost his seat in the Shūgiin, as did the party chairman Tamisuke Watanuki . His successor as General Secretary of the New People's Party was Shōzaburō Jimi .

Kamei is the 3rd son of Count Kamei Koretate , a descendant of the Daimyō Kamei Korenori . His maternal grandfather was the writer and MP of Kizokuin Count Arima Yorichika . His oldest daughter is the Sangiin MP Akiko Kamei (New People's Party).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 島 根 ２ 区 で 竹 下 亘 氏 ３ 選 、 亀 井 久 興 氏 は 比例 で 復活 当選 . In: Yomimuri Shimbun. September 12, 2005. Retrieved June 29, 2008 (Japanese). 

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)