Suigetsukai

The Suigetsukai ( Japanese 水月 会 , also 水月 會 ) is a faction within the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). It is the youngest and second smallest faction of the LDP and is chaired by Shigeru Ishiba , which is why it is mostly referred to as the Ishiba faction ( 石 破 派 , Ishiba-ha ). You belong 18 LDP members of the lower house and 2 of the upper house , she is also involved with Ken Saitō as Minister of Agriculture in the ruling fourth Abe cabinet .

history

After the LDP chairman and prime minister Shinzō Abe was re-elected party chairman on September 8, 2015, the then non-attached Minister of State for National Strategic Special Zones, Shigeru Ishiba, announced that he wanted the "Liaison Conference of Non-attached Members " ( 無派閥 連絡 会 Muhabatsu Renrakukai ) and found a faction of their own. On September 28, the name of the faction, Suigetsukai , was announced. He was selected by an abbot ( 住 職 , Jūshoku ) of one of the Rinzai-shū temples in Taitō and comes from the sentence Suigetsudōjō ni zasu ( 水月 道場 に 坐 す , about "put into Suigetsu- Dōjō ") from the Zen language. It is made up of the Kanji " 水 " ( sui or mizu , including "water") and " 月 " ( getsu or tsuki , including "moon") and should mean something like "meet the demands of the age with pure mind". Since Ishiba had opposed the pronounced factionalism of the LDP in his time as general secretary of the LDP, he was criticized within the party for the faction formation and as a result, among other things, not by related parties such. B. Yasukazu Hamada supports. Nonetheless, 20 members of the Suigetsukai finally joined, which is important because the candidacy for the election of the chairman of the LDP requires nominations of at least 20 members.

Members

As of February 1, 2018

• House of Commons
  • Shigeru Ishiba ( Tottori 1, 11th term; previously Nukaga → non-attached)
  • Yūji Yamamoto ( PR Shikoku , 10th term; previously Santō )
  • Ichirō Kamoshita ( Tokyo 13, 9th term; previously Nukaga)
  • Tatsuya Itō (Tokyo 22, 8th term; previously Nukaga)
  • Norihisa Tamura ( Mie 4, 8th term; previously Nukaga)
  • Masazumi Gotōda ( Tokushima 1, 7th term; previously non-attached)
  • Yoshihisa Furakawa ( Miyazaki 3rd, 6th term; previously Yamasaki )
  • Ryōsei Akazawa (Tottori 2, 5th term; previously non-attached)
  • Masaaki Taira (Tokyo 4, 5th term; previously Yamasaki → non-attached)
  • Ken Saitō ( Chiba 7, 4th term; previously non-attached)
  • Tōru Ishizaki ( Niigata 1, 3rd term; previously non-attached)
  • Hiroaki Kadoyama ( PR South Kantō , 3rd term; previously non-attached)
  • Saichi Kamiyama ( Saitama 7, 3rd term; previously non-attached)
  • Yoshinori Tadokoro ( Ibaraki 1, 3rd term; previously non-attached)
  • Hiroyuki Togashi ( Akita 1, 3rd term; previously non-attached)
  • Mamoru Fukuyama (PR Shikoku, 3rd term; previously non-attached)
  • Tetsuya Yagi ( PR Tōhoku , 3rd term; previously non-attached)
  • Takashi Yamashita ( Okayama 2, 3rd term; previously non-attached)
• House of Lords
  • Satoshi Nakanishi (National proportional representation, 1st term; previously non-attached)
  • Shōji Maitachi (Tottori, 1st term; previously Nukaga)

former members

• Masaru Wakasa (Tokyo 10, 2nd term; previously unaffiliated, moved to Tomin First no Kai in July 2017 and participated in the founding of Kibō no Tō )

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ suigetsukai.org - メ ン バ ー 紹 介 , accessed February 1, 2018