Tatsuo Kawabata

Tatsuo Kawabata (2012)

Tatsuo Kawabata ( Japanese 川端 達夫 , Kawabata Tatsuo ; born January 24, 1945 in Gamou County (today: Ōmihachiman ), Shiga Prefecture ) is a former Japanese politician ( Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) → New Progressive Party (NFP) → independent → NFP → Shintō Yūai → Democratic Party (Eng. DPJ) → Democratic Progressive Party (Eng. DP)). He was a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house, for the Kinki block from 1986 to 2017 with one interruption (2012–2014) and was Minister for Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology , Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy from 2009 to 2010 , first in the Yukio Hatoyama cabinet , then in the Kan cabinet , and from 2011 to 2012 Minister of Internal Affairs and Communication in the Noda cabinet .

In the DPJ he was the namesake of his own faction , the Kawabata Group (officially: 民 社 協会 , Minsha Kyōkai , "Democratic Socialist Society"; later and today in the DP Takaki group) made up of former members of the Democratic Socialist Party.

Kawabata, a graduate of Kyoto University , was first elected to parliament in the 1986 Shūgiin election for the Democratic Socialist Party in the Shiga constituency and then re-elected eight times - since 1996 in the single constituency Shiga 1 and 2005, as a successor in 2014 and 2014 in the Kinki proportional representation . In 1994 he joined the NFP like the other MPs of his party, which he temporarily left in 1995. After the dissolution of the Shinshintō at the end of 1997, he initially belonged to the "New Brotherhood Party" ( Shintō Yūāi ), with which he joined the Democratic Party in 1998.

From 1999 to 2000 and again in 2004, Kawabata was chairman of the Parliamentary Affairs Committee ( kokkai taisaku iinkai ) of the DPJ. In 2004 he became general secretary under the party leader Katsuya Okada . After the Shūgiin election in 2005 , in which he himself lost his constituency and was only re-elected through the Kinki proportional representation, he resigned like Okada. From 2006 he was one of the deputy party chairmen.

In September 2009, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama appointed him to his cabinet as Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. He took over responsibility for science and technology policy from Naoto Kan on January 7, 2010 . Under Prime Minister Naoto Kan, he held the position until the cabinet reshuffle in September 2010 , when he was replaced by Yoshiaki Takaki (Kawabata Group). In 2010 he took over the chairmanship of the Shūgiin ( giin-un'ei-iinkai ) committee of rules of procedure .

After Kans was replaced by Yoshihiko Noda , he became Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications in his cabinet on September 2, 2011, but lost it in the third cabinet reshuffle on October 1, 2012. In the Shūgiin election in 2012, he was defeated in Shiga 1 constituency around 6,000 votes for the Liberal Democrat Toshitaka Ōoka and also narrowly missed a proportional representation, but was the first potential successor of the Democrats in the Kinki block. In May 2014, Kawabata replaced Taizō Mikazuki , who had resigned for his candidacy in the gubernatorial election in Shiga . In the new election in December 2014 he was defeated again by Ōoka, but won the second (of four) proportional representation of the Democrats in Kinki. He was then elected as the successor to Hirotaka Akamatsu as Vice President of the Shūgiin and has been non-attached as such since then. In September 2017, he announced that he would end his political career and not run for another term in the 2017 Shūgiin election . Akamatsu was then re-elected Vice President.

Web links

Commons : Tatsuo Kawabata  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Shūgiin: MP, Vice President Kawabata Tatsuo (Japanese, momento March 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , election results Shūgiin 2014, majority election, Shiga 1
2. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , election results Shūgiin 2014, proportional representation, Kinki, Democratic Party ( memento of the original from March 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
3. ↑ ベ テ ラ ン の 引退 相 次 ぐ ＝ 谷 垣 、 横路 氏 ら １４ 人 . In: Jiji Tsūshinsha . September 28, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2018 (Japanese). 
4. ↑ 衆院 副 議長 に 立 民 ・ 赤松 広 隆 氏 各派 協議 会 で 「大 島 理 森 議長」 と と と も に 了 承 皇室 会議 の メ ン バ ー に . In: Sankei News . October 30, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2018 (Japanese).