Motohisa Ikeda

Motohisa Ikeda ( Japanese 池田 元 久 , Ikeda Motohisa ; born December 20, 1940 in Fujisawa , Kanagawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party ( Kan Group ) and former member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the Japanese parliament , for the 6th Kanagawa constituency .

After graduating in 1964, Ikeda worked at the political and economic faculty of Waseda University for the public broadcaster NHK . In 1989 he left the station to switch to politics. In the Shūgiin election in 1990 , he applied as a candidate for the Socialist Party of Japan (SPJ) in the four-mandate Kanagawa constituency 4 and was elected with the third highest percentage of votes. However, in the 1993 election - the constituency had been increased to five mandates - he missed the fifth highest percentage of votes by around 3,500 votes. In 1994, he became a lecturer in the Business School of Kanagawa University .

After the electoral reform, Ikeda has been running for the Democratic Party in the new constituency Kanagawa 6, which includes parts of the city of Yokohama , since 1996 . After two victories, he lost the constituency in 2003 to Isamu Ueda ( Kōmeitō ), but was re-elected via the proportional electoral block South Kantō. In 2005 he had to leave the Shūgiin again, but returned to parliament as a successor in 2006 after the resignation of Hisayasu Nagata in the Livedoor scandal . In the democratic election victory in 2009 , he was able to win back his constituency.

In the Shūgiin he was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee (2002-2004) and the Disciplinary Committee (2007-2009). In 2010, after the new Prime Minister Naoto Kan took office, he was initially “Vice Minister” in the Ministry of Finance , and then in September 2010 in the Ministry of Economic Affairs . From 2011 to 2012 he was chairman of the Shūgiin Social Committee. In the Shūgiin election in 2012 , he received only the third highest percentage of votes in his constituency and lost the constituency seat again to Isamu Ueda; as the seventh-best constituency loser on the list of Democrats in South Kanto, he also missed a proportional representation.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Kantei : Short biography ( Japanese , English )