Kansei Nakano

Kansei Nakano

Kansei Nakano ( Japanese 中 野 寛 成 , Nakano Kansei ; born November 26, 1940 in Nagasaki , Nagasaki Prefecture ) is a former Japanese politician of the Democratic Party ( Kawabata group ), a member of the Shūgiin for the 8th constituency of Osaka and a former minister.

Life

Nakano, who experienced the atomic bombing of Nagasaki when he was four and lived in Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture from high school , studied law at Kansai University . During his studies he joined the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP). After graduating, he worked in a tax consultancy office and as secretary to a member of the Osaka Prefectural Parliament. In 1966 he was elected to the Toyonaka City Council in a by-election for the first of three terms in office, and in 1972 he was Vice-President of the Council.

In the 1972 Shūgiin election , Nakano tried to switch to national politics and stood as a DSP candidate in the four-mandate Osaka 3 constituency, which also included Toyonaka. With around 106 thousand votes, he only reached fifth place, in 1976 he succeeded in entering the Shūgiin with the fourth highest percentage of votes. He was then re-elected nine times in a row, from 1996 in the new constituency of Osaka 8. In Shūgiin he was, among other things, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and in 2000 deputy chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Constitution ( kempō chōsakai ).

Like most DSP members, after the failure of the anti- LDP coalition in 1994 , Nakano took part in the founding of the New Progressive Party, for which he headed the Political Research Council from 1994 to 1995 , and the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs in 1997 until the party's dissolution. In 1998 he was the first and only chairman of the Shinto Yūai ("New Brotherhood Party") before joining the Democratic Party. There he was first one of the deputy chairmen ( daihyō-daikō ), then in 1998 chairman of the political research council, in 2002 under Yukio Hatoyama , whom he had supported in the election for party chairman in 2002 against Naoto Kan , for a short time general secretary. From 2003 to 2005 he was Vice President of the Shūgiin.

In the Shūgiin election in 2005 , Nakano lost his constituency to Takashi Ōtsuka (LDP) and missed re-election through the Kinki proportional representation with a poor constituency result ("loss rate" 79.8%). In the democratic election victory in 2009 , he won his constituency back with 115 to 77 thousand votes. In January 2011, Prime Minister Naoto Kan appointed him to his cabinet as chairman of the National Public Security Commission and also made him responsible for the abduction issue, the negotiations on the kidnapping of Japanese citizens by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, and the Reform of the civil service. In September 2011 he was replaced in the subsequent Noda cabinet. In 2012 he chaired the Shūgiin special committee for the "integrated reform of social security and taxes" (doubling of VAT).

For the 2012 Shūgiin election , Nakano retired from politics.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Four DPJ candidates kick off campaigns for party president. In: The Japan Times . September 10, 2002, accessed January 14, 2011 . 
2. ↑ 民主 ・ 中 野 寛 成 氏 引退 へ 元 衆院 副 議長 、 「若 い 人 に」 . In: Asahi Shimbun Degitaru. November 4, 2012, Retrieved January 1, 2013 (Japanese).