Toranosuke Katayama

Toranosuke Katayama

Toranosuke Katayama ( Japanese 片 山 虎 之 助 , Katayama Toranosuke ; born August 2, 1935 in Kasaoka , Okayama Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Nippon Ishin no Kai , a member of the Sangiin , the upper house of parliament , and a former minister.

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Katayama, a graduate of the law faculty of the University of Tokyo , was after graduating in 1958 a civil servant in the Jichi-chō, the "authority for self-government", which two years later was upgraded to the Ministry of self-government . For the ministry he worked, among other things, in the ministerial secretariat and in the prefecture administration of Shizuoka , in 1986 he became vice-governor of his home prefecture Okayama under Governor Shirō Nagano . In 1988 he ended his civil service career and switched to politics.

In the Sangiin election in 1989 , Katayama took over the LDP candidacy in Okayama (then two seats per election) from Mutsuo Kimura (Tanaka / Takeshita faction), who withdrew from politics. Although the candidate of the nationwide successful Rengō no Kai was able to achieve significant proportions of the vote, Katayama and the SPJ candidate Nobuko Mori were able to defend the seats in Okayama for the established parties. In 1995 and 2001 , when the constituency was reduced to one mandate, Katayama was confirmed with the highest percentage of votes in office. The former Takeshita faction , which was still the strongest at the time, joined the LDP ; soon he received deputy positions in the LDP party executive committee , in 1992 he became parliamentary state secretary in the finance ministry . In 1995 during the grand coalition with the SPJ he took over the chairmanship of the finance committee of the Sangiin. In 1996 he took over the chairmanship of the LDP Parliamentary Affairs Committee.

In December 2000, Yoshirō Mori appointed Katayama to his cabinet as minister of post , minister for self-government and head of the authority for general affairs , the three authorities were absorbed a few weeks later in the ministry for general affairs , the Katayama also in the subsequent first cabinet of Koizumi until September 2003 led. He initially positioned himself as an opponent of the already discussed full privatization of the state post , but in the "post-parliament" of 2005 as general secretary of the LDP Sangiin faction (2004-2006) he ultimately contributed to the efforts of the party leadership to convince the LDP MPs in the Sangiin ( that cannot be resolved) to force consent. At the same time he tried to introduce amendments to the privatization bill proposed by opponents. In between he was, among other things, chairman of the budget committee.

In the Sangiin election in 2007 , the opposition Democratic Party in Okayama Yumiko Himei , who ran for the first time in a national election. Katayama was defeated by Himei by around 50 thousand votes and lost his mandate. He then did not retire from politics and sought to run for the next Sangiin election in 2010 through the nationwide proportional representation - but there is an age limit of 70 years in the LDP. In May 2010 Katayama left the LDP and joined the newly founded Tachiagare Nippon by Takeo Hiranuma , whose political home is also in Okayama. Katayama received around 118 thousand preferential votes nationwide, winning the party's only seat in 2010. He then became general secretary of the Sangiin faction of Tachiagare Nippon.

In 2012, the Tachiagare Nippon merged with Tōru Hashimoto's first Nippon Ishin no Kai , and when it split in 2014, Katayama did not follow Hiranuma, but became a member of Ishin no Tō . In 2015 he became a member of Hashimoto's break-off from Ōsaka Ishin no Kai . For this, Katayama was confirmed in the Sangiin election in 2016 with 194,902 votes as the party's best candidate [out of four elected] in the national proportional representation for a further six years.

In the Ōsaka / Nippon Ishin no Kai, Katayama has been "co-chairman" ( kyōdō daihyō ; in the Ishin no Kai, however, unlike in some parties, there are currently not two or more of them sharing the chairmanship, but one Chairman, daihyō , and a single "co-chairman") and leads the general assembly of members of both chambers of the national parliament.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reiji Yoshida: Katayama against privatizing posts, favors stronger NTT. In: The Japan Times . May 1, 2001, accessed July 31, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , election results Sangiin 2016, proportional representation, OIshin