Yoshihisa Inoue

Yoshihisa Inoue ( Japanese 井上 義 久 , Inoue Yoshihisa ; born July 24, 1947 in Toyama , Toyama Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician, general secretary of the Kōmeitō and member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament .

Inoue worked after completing his studies at the engineering faculty of Tōhoku University for the Kōmeitō party newspaper. In the Shūgiin election in 1990 he ran in the four-mandate Tokyo 3 constituency for the Kōmeitō and was elected to parliament for the first time with the fourth highest percentage of votes. First voted out in 1993, he returned after the electoral reform in 1996 on the NFP list in the Tōhoku proportional representation block and was then re-elected five times in a row as list candidate 1 of the Kōmeitō.

In 1999 Inoue was in the reconstituted Kōmeitō under Takenori Kanzaki chairman of the campaign committee, in a cabinet reshuffle in September 2004 then successor to Kazuo Kitagawa as chairman of the political research council . In 2006, Kanzaki's successor Akihiro Ōta appointed him vice-party chairman. In 2009 Inoue succeeded General Secretary Kazuo Kitagawa, who had lost his Shūgiin seat.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)