Keiichirō Asao

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Keiichirō Asao ( Japanese 浅 尾 慶 一郎 , Asao Keiichirō ; born February 11, 1964 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and former member of both chambers of the Kokkai , as well as former chairman of Minna no Tō ("Party of All").

Life

Asao graduated from the Law Faculty of Tokyo University in 1987 and then became an employee of the Nippon Kōgyō Ginkō (English Industrial Bank of Japan ). He earned an MBA from Stanford University in 1992, and three years later, in 1995, left the bank to pursue politics.

Asao ran for the New Progressive Party in 1996 in the 1996 Shūgiin election in the 4th constituency of Kanagawa , but was defeated by Tadayoshi Iijima ( LDP ). In the 1998 election to Sangiin, the House of Lords , he was elected to Sangiin for the Democratic Party in Kanagawa (three seats per election) with the highest percentage of votes (640,463 votes). In 2004 he was confirmed - this time with the second highest percentage of votes. Within the DPJ he belonged to the Kawabata group .

In the Sangiin, Asao was a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. In the 2007 shadow cabinet of the DPJ, he was designated as "the next defense minister". At the end of July 2009 he announced his resignation from the party, but the party precluded him by expulsion. He participated in the founding of the Minna no Tō by Yoshimi Watanabe and stood as a candidate for the Shūgiin , the lower house, in the elections on August 30, 2009 . Although he lost the 4th constituency of Kanagawa against the Democrat Kazuyoshi Nagashima, but was elected via the proportional electoral block South Kanto.

From 2009 Asao led the Political Research Council of Minna no Tō. In the Shūgiin election in 2012 , he was able to prevail in the constituency of Kanagawa 4 against candidates from both major parties - incumbent Nagashima no longer ran. From April 2014, after Yoshimi Watanabe's resignation , until the party was dissolved in November 2014, he was party chairman.

In October 2016, Asao joined the LDP lower house faction. He also joined the party in September 2017; but Tomohiro Yamamoto kept the LDP candidacy in Kanagawa 4.Asao ran in the 2017 general election without nomination as an independent and with 26.7% of the vote only reached third place behind the Constitutional Democratic candidate Yuki Waseda (34.8%) and Tomohiro Yamamoto (28.9%).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1996/99/001557/00001557_5135.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.senkyo.janjan.jp  
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 31, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.senkyo.janjan.jp
  3. ↑ Minshutō / Democratic Party of Japan : Shadow Cabinet ( Japanese ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. / English ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dpj.or.jp
  4. ↑ Natsumi Mizumoto: DPJ will say anything to win: defector Asao. In: The Japan Times . August 5, 2009, accessed August 13, 2009 .
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 17, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.senkyo.janjan.jp
  6. ↑ 膨 張 す る 自 民… 旧 み ん な 代表 ・ 浅 尾 慶 一郎 氏 も 会 派 入 り 相 相 次 ぐ 入党 ・ 復 党 に 軋 轢 も . In: Sankei . October 26, 2016. Retrieved February 15, 2017 (Japanese).
  7. ↑ 浅 尾 慶 一郎 氏 自民党 に 入党 . In: Mainichi Shimbun . September 30, 2017. Retrieved January 8, 2018 (Japanese).
  8. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Shūgiin 2017 election results, Kanagawa ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2018 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.yomiuri.co.jp
personal data
SURNAME Asao, Keiichirō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 浅 尾 慶 一郎 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo Prefecture , Japan