Kazuyoshi Kaneko

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Kazuyoshi Kaneko, 2018

Kazuyoshi Kaneko ( Japanese 金子 一 義 , Kaneko Kazuyoshi ; born December 20, 1942 in Gifu Prefecture ) is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), most recently the Kishida faction . From 1986 to 2017 he was a deputy from Gifu in the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , and twice a minister.

Life

Kaneko is the eldest son of Shūgiin MP and Finance Minister Ippei Kaneko . He completed his studies in economics at Keiō University in 1966. First, Kaneko pursued a career in the private sector, until 1986 he worked for the KK Nippon Chōki Shin'yō Ginkō ( English The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Ltd. ).

After his father's withdrawal from politics, he successfully ran for his successor in the Shūgiin election in 1986 in the 2nd constituency of Gifu (4 seats). In the LDP, he joined the Miyazawa faction , to which his father had already belonged. After the constituency reform of 1994, Kaneko was re-elected twice (1996 and 2003) through the Tōkai proportional representation block, five times in the single constituency Gifu 4, which he last won in 2014 against Masato Imai ( Ishin no To ).

In the LDP, Kaneko was Vice Chairman of the Committee on Parliamentary Affairs in 1990 and three times - 1995, 2000 and 2001 - Deputy Secretary General. In 1991 he was Parliamentary State Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Construction . From 1996 to 1998 and again from 2006 to 2010 he was chairman of the LDP Gifu.

In the " Katō Rebellion" against the Prime Minister and party leader Yoshirō Mori in 2000 , Kaneko was one of the MPs who remained loyal to his faction chairman Katō and abstained from the vote of no confidence against Mori by absenteeism.

From 2003 to 2004, Kaneko was Minister of State for Deregulation in the Koizumi cabinet for the first time in a cabinet. On September 29, 2008, Prime Minister Tarō Asō appointed him to succeed the resigned Minister for Land, Infrastructure and Transport Nariaki Nakayama in his cabinet , to which he was a member until his resignation in September 2009.

For the 2017 Shūgiin election , Kaneko withdrew from politics. His eldest son, Shunpei, succeeded him as an LDP MP for the constituency of Gifu 4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 自 民 、 岐阜 ４ 区 に 金子氏 長 男. In: nikkei.com . October 3, 2017. Retrieved December 20, 2017 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Shūgiin 2017 election results, majority constituencies, Gifu
personal data
SURNAME Kaneko, Kazuyoshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 金子 一 義 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Gifu Prefecture , Japan