Jirō Kawasaki
Jirō Kawasaki ( Japanese 川 崎 二郎 , Kawasaki Jirō ; born November 15, 1947 in Iga , Mie Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house, and former Minister of Transport and Social Affairs. Within the party, he belongs to the Koga faction .
After graduating from Keiō University , Kawasaki worked for Matsushita Denki Sangyō (Panasonic). In the 1979 Shūgiin election , he ran in the five-seat constituency Mie 1 for the seat of his father, who died the previous year, but received only the sixth highest percentage of votes. In the new elections in 1980 he reached third place and moved into Shūgiin. Re-elected in 1983, he was re-elected a total of eleven times from 1986 , from 1996 in the newly created constituency Mie 1 ; In 1996 and 2009 , however, he could only claim a seat in the Shūgiin through the Tōkai proportional representation. In the 2017 election , Mie lost one constituency and Kawasaki switched to the newly tailored Mie 2 constituency; he was defeated by Masaharu Nakagawa , but won with a relatively narrow defeat an LDP seat in the Tōkai proportional representation.
In 1990, Kawasaki received his first government post as parliamentary state secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Post.In the 1990s, he took on more leadership positions in the party and parliament as deputy chairman of the committee for parliamentary affairs and chairman of the committee for regional administration ( chiho gyōsei ). In 1998 he became minister in the Obuchi cabinet for the first time and took over the Ministry of Transport , from 1999 also the authority for the development of Hokkaidōs . During the "Katō Rebellion" in 2000 he was one of the supporters of Kōichi Katōs and abstained from the vote of no confidence in the party chairman-Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori . Mori's successor, Koizumi , appointed Kawasaki to his 3rd cabinet as Minister of Health, Labor and Social Affairs in 2005 . In this role, he took part in the beef talks with the United States about the lifting of the import ban on US beef, which was imposed after the BSE cases there in 2003 and was only temporarily lifted in 2005.
After the LDP lost power in 2009, the new party chairman Sadakazu Tanigaki Kawasaki appointed to the party leadership as chairman of the parliamentary committee. In September 2010 he was replaced by Ichirō Aisawa .
family
Kawasaki's father, Hideshi, was a post-war LDP MP and Minister of Health in Hatoyama's 2nd Cabinet ; his grandfather Katsu was a member of parliament before the Second World War, most recently for the Rikken Minseitō , and in 1945 a founding member of the Progressive Party of Japan .
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Election results Shūgin 2017, Mie (majority constituencies) & Tōkai (proportional representation constituency)
- ^ Kenzō Uchida: Timetable for a departure. In: The Japan Times . March 10, 2001, accessed September 8, 2010 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kawasaki, Jirō |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 川 崎 二郎 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iga , Mie Prefecture |