Keiji Yamada

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Keiji Yamada (right) in historical costume on the occasion of Jidai-Matsuri 2009, on the left the Mayor of the city of Kyoto, Daisaku Kadokawa .

Keiji Yamada ( Japanese 山田 啓 二 , Yamada Keiji ; born April 5, 1954 in Sumoto , Hyōgo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and has been the governor of Kyoto since 2002 .

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Keiji Yamada, a graduate of the University of Tokyo , became a civil servant in the Ministry of the Interior after graduation , for which he worked, among other things, in the prefectural administrations of Wakayama and Kōchi . In 1992 he became an advisor ( Sanjikan ) in the legislative office of the Cabinet . After a brief activity at the State Land Authority , he worked in the Kyōto Prefecture from 1999, initially as head of the department for general affairs, and from 2001 as Lieutenant Governor under Teiichi Aramaki . When he did not run for a fifth term in 2002, Yamada applied for his successor.

The gubernatorial election in Kyoto Prefecture on April 7, 2002 was Keiji Yamada with the support of the LDP as well as from most other national parties ( DPJ , Kōmeitō , LP , SDP and Conservative Party ) against Akira Morikawa ( CPJ , New Socialist Party ) and knocked off two Winning candidates: With a turnout of around 49%, Yamada received a good 482 thousand votes, Morikawa only just under 392 thousand. Yamada thus avoided an election defeat for the bourgeois camp in Kyōto, which had not elected a governor against an LDP-supported candidate since the withdrawal of Ninagawa Torazō (1950-1978).

In the 2006 , 2010 and 2014 gubernatorial elections , he was re-elected for three further terms with non-communist all-party support and over 60% of the votes against a CPY-supported candidate.

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  1. ↑ Yamada wins Kyoto gubernatorial poll. Victory over JCP candidate marks reprieve for LDP after Yokohama loss. In: The Japan Times . April 8, 2002, archived from the original on July 13, 2012 ; accessed on April 1, 2010 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Yamada, Keiji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 山田 啓 二 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 5th 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Sumoto