Genjirō Kaneko

Genjirō Kaneko ( Japanese 金子 原 二郎 , Kaneko Genjirō ; born May 8, 1944 in Ikitsuki , Kitamatsuura County (today: Hirado ), Nagasaki Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and a member of the Sangiin , the upper house of the Japanese Parliament for Nagasaki Prefecture. From 1998 to 2010 he was governor of Nagasaki.

Life

After completing his studies at the humanities faculty at Keiō University in 1968, Kaneko worked initially for the fishing company Nihon Suisan , and from 1969 for Kanai Bussan. In 1975 he was elected to the prefectural parliament. In his third term of office he resigned his mandate and switched to national politics in the 1983 Shūgiin election : In the 2nd constituency of Nagasaki (four seats), his father’s previous constituency, he was elected to the Shūgiin for the LDP with the second highest percentage of votes , the national lower house, elected. He was then confirmed four times, most recently in 1996 in the newly created constituency Nagasaki 4. In the Shūgiin he was, among other things, Parliamentary State Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Construction and Chairman of the Special Committee for Coal and the Judiciary Committee.

When Governor Isamu Takada did not run for a third term in 1998, Kaneko won the election to succeed him. He was confirmed in office in 2002 and most recently in 2006 with the support of the LDP, Kōmeitō and the Social Democratic Party . Since 2005 he has also been chairman of the Kyūshū Regional Governors Conference ( Kyūshū-chihō chijikai ). He announced that he would not run for a fourth term in the gubernatorial elections on February 21, 2010. The election for his successor on February 21, 2010 won the previous Lieutenant Governor Hōdō Nakamura , who took office on March 2, 2010.

In July 2010, Kaneko ran in the 2010 Sangiin election for the LDP in Nagasaki (one mandate) and was able to beat the democratic incumbent Tadashi Inuzuka .

family

Kaneko's father Iwazō was a Shūgiin MP for the 2nd constituency of Nagasaki and Minister of Agriculture and Science in the 1970s and 1980s.

Web links

• Nagasaki Prefecture: Short Biography of the Governor (Japanese)
• Zenkoku chijikai (NGA): short biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 長崎 県> 長崎 県 知事 選 挙 . (No longer available online.) In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures) February 5, 2006, archived from the original January 7, 2010 ; Retrieved December 20, 2009 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ 金子 知事 、 ４ 選 不 出馬 を 正式 表明 「支 障 な い 県 政 の た め」 . (No longer available online.) In: Nagasaki Shimbun. November 5, 2009, archived from the original on November 13, 2009 ; Retrieved December 20, 2009 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.