Keiichi Ishii

Keiichi Ishii

Keiichi Ishii ( Japanese 石井 啓 一 , Ishii Keiichi ; born March 20, 1958 in Toshima , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Kōmeitō and a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament, for the proportional electoral block of North Kantō .

Ishii attended the affiliated middle and high school of Waseda University , then studied at the engineering faculty of the University of Tokyo . After graduating in 1981, he became a civil servant in the Ministry of Construction . In 1992 he left the ministry and turned to politics.

In the Shūgiin election in 1993 , Ishii ran for the Kōmeitō in the three-mandate constituency of Tokyo 5 and was elected with the third highest percentage of votes: by around 4,000 votes, he ousted LDP officer Kōki Kobayashi to fourth place. After the electoral reform in 1994, he ran by proportional representation, first in Tokyo, since 2000 in northern Kantō, and was re-elected six times in a row. In 2003 he became State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance under the 2nd Koizumi cabinet . In the Kōmeitō he took from the 1990s higher positions in the party executive; In 2000 and again in 2004 he was Vice Chairman of the Political Research Council , and in 2010 he succeeded Tetsuo Saitō as Chairman of the Political Research Council. From 2015 to 2019 he was Minister for Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism ( MLIT ).

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)