Katsunobu Kato

Katsunobu Katō ( Japanese. 加藤勝信 , Katō Katsunobu ; born November 22, 1955 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( LDP , Takeshita / formerly Nukaga faction ), member of the national parliament (constituency of Okayama 5) and acting minister for health , Work and social .

Life

Katō, the son-in-law of Katō Mutsuki (most recently constituency Okayama 4), was an official in the Ministry of Finance after graduating in 1979 from the economics faculty of the University of Tokyo . At times he was posted to the Ministry of Post , in 1994 he was Minister Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture. In 1995 he ended his civil servant career and became his father-in-law's deputy secretary. In 2000 he became a visiting professor at the Kawasaki Iryō Fukushi Daigaku (~ "Kawasaki College for Medicine and Social Work") in Kurashiki .

In active politics, Katō switched to the 2003 parliamentary elections , when he ran for proportional representation on the LDP list in the Chūgoku block. Placed in third place alone, he was elected for the first time and re-elected in 2005 , now in second place on the list. After that, Katō should share the LDP candidacy in the constituency of Okayama 5 with Yoshitaka Murata according to the “Costa Rica method” ; but as Murata withdrew the 2012 election from politics, Kato was effective from 2009, the LDP candidate fifth for the constituency Okayama this he won in the nationwide LDP landslide defeat in 2009 by an absolute majority and was in 2012, 2014 and 2017 with two-thirds majorities safe approved.

In the LDP, Katō was, among other things, from 2011 chairman of the LDP prefecture association Okayama, in the government from 2007 to 2008 for the cabinets Abe and Fukuda parliamentary state secretary in the cabinet office. From 2012 to 2015 he was Deputy Head of the Cabinet Secretariat in Shinzō Abe's second and third cabinets . In October 2015, Abe appointed him to a cabinet reshuffle as Minister for Decline in Births and Gender Equality; There he is also responsible for several cross-sectional tasks and government programs, including the kidnapping of Japanese citizens by North Korea and Abe's new program for an ichioku sōkatsuyaku [shakai] ( 一億総活躍 [社会] , about “[a society in which] 100 million active ”; the wording reminds some commentators of ichioku… - /“ 100 million… ”propaganda slogans of the imperial government in the Pacific War - the government denies any reference - or the general mobilization; translated for English-speaking foreigners as" Promoting Dynamic Engagement of All Citizens " ).

In the cabinet reshuffle of August 3, 2017 , Katō became Minister of Health, Labor and Social Affairs and continued to be responsible for the problem of the kidnapping of Japanese citizens by North Korea and for the new "reform of working methods" (government initiative to limit extremely long working hours); however, he was replaced by Minister of State Masaji Matsuyama in the “activation of all 100 million” .

After Abe's re-election against Shigeru Ishiba as party chairman in 2018, Katō moved up to the narrowest circle of the party leadership as chairman of the executive council on October 2, 2018, when the cabinet and party executive committee were subsequently reshuffled. In this position he succeeded his faction chairman Wataru Takeshita . The Takeshita faction was next to Ishiba's own faction the only faction that had not spoken out in favor of Abe in the election of the chairman, and Takeshita himself had supported Ishiba, while Katō Abe is closer. During the cabinet reshuffle in September 2019 , Katō moved back to the cabinet and was again Minister for Health, Labor and Social Affairs.

Web links

Website (japanese)

Official seat of the Prime Minister / Cabinet, Minister in the Third Cabinet Abe 2015–16: 一億総活躍担当、女性活躍担当、再チャャレンジ担当、拉致問題担当、国土強靱化担当、、府特命担当少子化対（共同参画）加藤勝信 (Japanese), English translation , Chinese translation

Individual evidence

↑ House of Representatives, MPs: 加藤勝信君
↑ Michael Cucek: Mr. Abe and His "100 Million". In: Number 1 Shimbun. Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, December 1, 2015, accessed October 13, 2018 .
↑ Masayasu Hosaka: 昭和史のかたち安倍首相の１億総活躍社会 . In: Mainichi Shimbun , morning edition Tōkyō. October 10, 2015, archived from the original on February 5, 2015 ; Retrieved January 11, 2016 (Japanese).
↑ VOX POPULI: Abe's senseless sloganeering has a wartime vibe. In: Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch. October 1, 2015, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 11, 2016 .
↑ Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yusuke Matsukura (authors of the Japanese original): PM Abe picks close aides for senior LDP positions to increase his involvement. In: The Mainichi . October 6, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Katō, Katsunobu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	加藤勝信 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 22, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tokyo prefecture

[1] House of Representatives, MPs: 加藤勝信君

[2] Michael Cucek: Mr. Abe and His "100 Million". In: Number 1 Shimbun. Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, December 1, 2015, accessed October 13, 2018 .

[3] Masayasu Hosaka: 昭和史のかたち安倍首相の１億総活躍社会 . In: Mainichi Shimbun , morning edition Tōkyō. October 10, 2015, archived from the original on February 5, 2015 ; Retrieved January 11, 2016 (Japanese).

[4] VOX POPULI: Abe's senseless sloganeering has a wartime vibe. In: Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch. October 1, 2015, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 11, 2016 .

[5] Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yusuke Matsukura (authors of the Japanese original): PM Abe picks close aides for senior LDP positions to increase his involvement. In: The Mainichi . October 6, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018 .