Kōriki Jōjima

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Kōriki Jōjima ( Japanese 城 島 光 力 Jōjima Kōriki , actually and until 2005 also in elections 城 島 正光 Jōjima Masamitsu ; born January 1, 1947 in Yanagawa , Fukuoka Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party (DPJ). He was a member of the Shūgiin from 1996 to 2012 , most recently for the constituency of Kanagawa 10, and from October to December 2012 Minister of Finance in the Noda cabinet .

Jōjima, a graduate of La Salle High School in Kagoshima and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Tokyo , worked for Ajinomoto after graduating in 1970 , where he stayed for 25 years. There he later took on leadership positions in the Ajinomoto corporate union.

In the 1996 Shūgiin election , Jōjima switched to politics: He ran for Ichirō Ozawa's New Progressive Party (NFP) in the Tokyo proportional representation block and was certainly elected. After the dissolution of the NFP, he came to the "new" DPJ in 1998 via Kansei Nakanos Shintō Yūai . For this he took over the candidacy in the constituency of Tokyo 13 against Ichirō Kamoshita (LDP) in the elections in 2000, 2003 and 2005 , but could only prevail in 2003. In 2000 he was re-elected through the proportional representation bloc, in 2005 he lost his mandate. For the 2009 election, he took over the constituency of Kanagawa 10, which includes parts of the city of Kawasaki , and re-entered parliament against Kazunori Tanaka (LDP).

Jōjima was 2002 member of the "next cabinet", the DPJ shadow cabinet of Naoto Kan . He took on higher board positions in the National Party after the change of government in 2009: in 2010 he became deputy chairman of the political planning committee under Naoto Kan , and in 2011 he became deputy general secretary under Yoshihiko Noda . In January 2012, Noda appointed him chairman of the committee for parliamentary affairs when the party leadership and cabinet were reorganized. He has also been chairman of the DPJ Kanagawa Prefectural Association since 2011. In a party and cabinet reshuffle in October 2012, he replaced Finance Minister Jun Azumi , who switched to the party leadership.

In the Shūgiin election in 2012 , Jōjima received only 21.9% of the vote in the 10th constituency of Kanagawa and was thus subject to Kazunori Tanaka (LDP, 37.5%). He also missed re-election via the proportional representation block and was voted out of office like seven other incumbent ministers in the Noda cabinet. In 2014 he received more votes again, but was defeated even more clearly by Tanaka, who won an absolute majority of the votes.

In 2015 he announced his withdrawal from active national politics.

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  1. ↑ Kanagawa Democratic Party: 2011 年度 役 員 一 覧
  2. ↑ Kanagawa Democratic Party: 2012 年度 役 員 一 覧
  3. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Shūgiin 2014 election results, majority election, Kanagawa
  4. ↑ 城 島 元 財務 相 、 政治 活動 に 区 切 り . In: Kanagawa Shimbun Kanaloco . July 7, 2015, accessed February 23, 2016 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Jōjima, Kōriki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 城 島 光 力 (Japanese); 城 島 正光 (Japanese, real name); Jōjima Masamitsu (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Yanagawa , Fukuoka Prefecture