Ikuo Kamei

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Ikuo Kamei ( Japanese 亀 井 郁 夫 , Kamei Ikuo ; born November 1, 1933 in Shōbara , Hiroshima Prefecture ; † May 15, 2019 ) was a Japanese politician . He represented Hiroshima Prefecture in Sangiin for two terms , initially for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and from 2005 for the New People's Party .

Kamei studied law at the University of Tokyo and after graduating in 1957 became an employee of Asahi Kasei . There he was one of the directors ( torishimariyaku ) from 1983 to 1986 before leaving the company and moving into politics. In 1987 he was elected to the Hiroshima Prefectural Parliament for Hiba County and confirmed in office in 1991. In 1993 he resigned his mandate to run for the successor of Toranosuke Takeshita in the gubernatorial election, but was defeated by Yūzan Fujita . In 1998 he switched to national politics when he successfully applied for one of the two mandates of Hiroshima Prefecture in the Sangiin election . In 2002 he was Parliamentary State Secretary ( daijin-seimukan ) in the Cabinet Office in the first Koizumi cabinet . In 2004 he was re-elected as a Member of Parliament.

As an opponent of the privatization of the public post , which was operated by Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi , he supported the deputy chairman of the New People's Party, his brother Shizuka , in the election campaign for the new Shūgiin elections against the Koizumi-nominated "assassin" candidate Takafumi Horie . At the renewed vote on the post-privatization law in the Sangiin, he abstained by absenteeism. His party expulsion process for supporting the post-privatization rebels was delayed by an objection because it was his own brother he had supported. However, the LDP Executive Council confirmed the expulsion from the party in December 2005, and Kamei then joined the New People's Party.

He became vice-chairman of the new party, and later he also led the Sangiin faction. He did not run for the 2010 election and withdrew from politics.

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SURNAME Kamei, Ikuo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 亀 井 郁 夫 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Shobara , Hiroshima Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH 15th May 2019