Kosuke Hori

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Kōsuke Hori, 2000

Kōsuke Hori ( Japanese 保 利 耕 輔 , Hori Kōsuke ; born September 23, 1934 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a former Japanese politician ( LDP , without faction ), he was a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house, for the constituency Saga 3 and until 2014 twice ministers.

Life

Hori is the eldest son of Shūgiin President and Minister Hori Shigeru . After studying at the Law Faculty of Keiō University , he worked from 1958 for the mechanical engineering company Nippon Seikō KK ( English NSK Ltd.), for which he headed the French subsidiary NSK France SA from 1974. In 1979 his father died, Hori ran successfully in the 1979 Shūgiin election for his seat in the five-mandate Saga constituency, which included the entire prefecture. He has been re-elected eleven times since then, following the electoral reform in the new Saga 3 single-mandate constituency . In the LDP he belonged to the Tanaka , later to the Takeshita faction .

In 1985 and 1996 Hori was Parliamentary State Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Agriculture . In 1990 Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu appointed him to a cabinet for the first time as Minister of Education. From 1999 to 2000 he was Interior Minister under Keizō Obuchi and Yoshirō Mori .

In 2005, Hori opposed the plans of Jun'ichirō Koizumi to privatize the Japanese post office. He voted against the privatization law and had to run in the resulting new elections without the support of the national LDP as an independent, but received the support of the LDP prefecture association. The party nominated Motoko Hirotsu as an opposing candidate - a so-called "assassin" candidate or " Kunoichi " - in his constituency, but Hori remained victorious. He returned to the LDP in 2006 after post-privatization had been successfully launched, but did not rejoin his old faction.

In August 2008, the Prime Minister and party chairman Yasuo Fukuda appointed him chairman of the political research committee ( seimu-chōsa-kai , English PARC ) . He kept the position under Fukuda's successor Tarō Asō until 2009. In 2012 he took over the chairmanship of the examination committee for the constitution ( kempō chōsakai ) in the Shūgiin, which is working on a possible amendment to the constitution .

For the 2014 Shūgiin election , in which the Saga 3 constituency was abolished, Hori withdrew after 35 years as a member of parliament.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Postal reform bills still top LDP agenda. 282 on LDP ticket. In: The Japan Times. August 20, 2005, accessed November 12, 2008 .
  2. ↑ Masami Itō: LDP allows postal rebels back in fold. In: The Japan Times. December 5, 2006, accessed November 12, 2008 .
personal data
SURNAME Hori, Kosuke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 保 利 耕 輔 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo Prefecture , Japan