Keiji Furuya

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Keiji Furuya

Keiji Furuya ( Japanese 古屋 圭 司 , Furuya Keiji ; * November 1, 1952 in Chiyoda , Tokyo Prefecture as Matsumoto Keiji ( 松本 圭 司 )) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament, for the 5th constituency of Gifu prefecture and former minister.

Furuya, the nephew of Tōru Furuya (Shūgiin MP, Minister) and great-nephew of Yoshitaka Furuya (Prefectural MP in Gifu, Shūgiin MP), was born in Tokyo, but entered in the family register in the city of Ena in his native Gifu . After attending the associated high school, he studied at Seikei University in Musashino , where he graduated from the Faculty of Economics in 1976. He then became an employee of the insurance company Taishō Kaijō Kasai Hoken (today: Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijō Kasai Hoken, English Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance ).

In 1984 he left the company and became secretary of Shintarō Abe , Shūgiin deputy from Yamaguchi and then foreign minister. In 1985 he became the secretary of his uncle and adoptive father, Tōru Furuya, then self-government minister and chairman of the National Public Security Commission . For the 1990 Shūgiin election , Tōru Furuya withdrew from politics, Keiji applied for his successor as an LDP candidate in the then four-mandate constituency of Gifu 2: With the third highest share of the vote, behind two Liberal Democrats and two socialists, he entered parliament for the first time. In the LDP, he joined the Abe faction of his previous employer, which he then belonged to until the election of the party chairman in 1998 (afterwards: Kamei faction , today: no faction). In the 1993 Shūgiin election , he was re-elected with the fourth highest percentage of votes and around 6,000 votes ahead of a challenger from the New Japan Party .

Since the reform of the electoral law, Furuya has been running in the new single-mandate constituency Gifu 5, which he initially won three times for the LDP. In 2005 he voted in the Shūgiin against the post-privatization sought by Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi and had to run in the resulting new election without LDP support. The party put the then 30-year-old party functionary Takaaki Wani as an "assassin" candidate. But Furuya defended his mandate more than 30,000 ahead of Wani and two other candidates. In late 2006, Furuya returned to the LDP. In the 2009 Shūgiin election , the constituency of Gifu 5 was one of the constituencies in which the Communist Party refused to nominate: In a two-candidate race against the Democrat Yoshinobu Achiha, Furuya lost around 14,000 votes and won with this comparatively narrow constituency defeat but a proportional representation in the Tōkai block. In 2012 he won back his constituency with ease.

During the grand coalition, Furuya was parliamentary state secretary in the Ministry of Justice from 1995 to 1996 ( reshaped Murayama cabinet ) . In the 2000s, he was appointed to leadership roles in the party, parliament and government: in 2000 he was chairman of the Shūgiin Committee for Trade and Industry ( shōkō iinkai ), and from 2002 to 2003 chairman of the culture and science committee. In between he was from 2001 to 2002 ( Koizumi I cabinet ) Vice Minister in the newly created Ministry of Economic Affairs and Industry . In the LDP he was, among other things, vice chairman of the PARC (2000–2001 and 2007–2008) and vice general secretary (2003–2004).

In December 2012, Shinzō Abe appointed him to his second cabinet as chairman of the National Public Security Commission and minister for special tasks at the Cabinet Office (civil protection) , he is also responsible for kidnapping problems and took on the new responsibility for kokudo kyojinka ( 国土 強 靱 化 , such as “strengthening the resilience of the country”), with which the infrastructure measures for disaster control according to the law of the same name are to be coordinated. In a cabinet reshuffle in September 2014, he was replaced by Eriko Yamatani .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 古屋 圭 司 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + plus . Kōdansha / kotobank.jp, accessed June 27, 2013 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , Shūgiin election 2005, constituency Gifu 5: Wani Takaaki (Japanese)
personal data
SURNAME Furuya, Keiji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 古屋 圭 司 (Japanese); 松本 圭 司 (Japanese, maiden name); Matsumoto Keiji (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Chiyoda , Tokyo Prefecture