Tomomi Inada

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Tomomi Inada (2017)
Tomomi Inada with the German Ambassador to Japan, Hans Carl von Werthern (2016)

Tomomi Inada ( Japanese 稲 田 朋 美 , Inada Tomomi ; born February 20, 1959 in Imadate , today: Echizen , Fukui Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician , member of the Shūgiin , the Japanese lower house, for the 1st constituency of Fukui. From August 3, 2016 until her resignation on July 28, 2017, she was Minister of Defense in the Shinzō Abe III cabinet, which was reorganized for the second time .

In the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan she belongs to the Hosoda faction .

Life

Inada, a graduate of Waseda University Law Faculty , was registered with the Osaka Bar Association (later: Fukui Bar Association) in 1985. She switched to politics in the 2005 Shūgiin election , the "post-privatization election ", when she ran for the LDP under Jun'ichirō Koizumi as an "assassin" candidate against the LDP rebel Isao Matsumiya in the Fukui 1 constituency. Among three competitive candidates - Inada, Matsuyama and Ryūzō Sasaki for the Democratic Party - she prevailed by a narrow margin of 33.4% and less than 500 votes ahead of Sasaki. She was able to defend her mandate in the 2009 and 2012 elections.

In 2009 Inada became chairwoman of the LDP prefectural association in Fukui, and in 2010 she became vice-general secretary of the central party organization. In 2012 she took over the chairmanship of the Justice Sub-Committee of the PARC . During the LDP's opposition, she was a member of the shadow cabinets of Sadakazu Tanigaki and Shinzō Abe in 2010 and 2012 , each for the Ministry of Justice: 2010 as Vice Minister , 2012 as Minister. In December 2012, when the party leader Shinzō Abe took over the government, she appointed her to his second cabinet as Minister for Regulatory Reform and made her responsible for administrative reform, civil servant reform, the Cool Japan strategy and the Sai Challenge government initiative. In the cabinet reshuffle in September 2014 , she replaced Sanae Takaichi (without a faction, formerly Machimura faction), who moved to the cabinet, as PARC chairman.

From the cabinet reshuffle on August 3, 2016 until her resignation on July 28, 2017, she was Minister of Defense . In this position she caused a sensation when she visited the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor with Prime Minister Shinzō Abe on December 27, 2016 and commemorated the victims of the Japanese attack of 1941 , but after her return to Japan on December 29, the Yasukuni- Visited the shrine and thus venerated Japanese war criminals of the Second World War . On June 28, 2017, Inada caused another scandal by asking for support for an LDP candidate in a campaign speech for the 2017 Tokyo prefectural parliamentary election "on behalf of the Defense Ministry, the Self- Defense Forces , the Liberal Democratic Party and as Defense Minister". Since the armed forces are legally obliged to be politically neutral, the opposition parties then demanded Inada's resignation, which the latter rejected.

On July 28, 2017, Inada finally resigned as defense minister over a cover-up of documents relating to a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan with the self-defense forces. A publication of the documents would have revealed dangerous operations for the soldiers and consequently made a planned expansion of the mission more difficult.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai (Hosoda faction): MPs (Japanese)
  2. ↑ Financial Times : Abe picks hardline nationalist as Japan defense minister , August 3, 2016
  3. ↑ The Japan Times : Defense chief Inada disrupts Abe's historic moment by visiting Yasukuni , accessed January 5, 2017
  4. ↑ The Japan Times : Defense minister draws flak for implying SDF support of LDP candidate in Tokyo assembly poll , accessed July 18, 2017
  5. ^ Inada makes resignation official; Kishida to take on defense role for now. In: The Japan Times . July 28, 2017, accessed July 28, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Inada, Tomomi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 稲 田 朋 美 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Imadate (Fukui) , Fukui Prefecture