Kenji Yamaoka

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Kenji Yamaoka

Kenji Yamaoka ( Japanese 山岡 賢 次 , Yamaoka Kenji ; born April 25, 1943 in Tochigi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician in the Liberal Party , former member of the Shūgiin for the 4th constituency of Tochigi and former chairman of the National Public Security Commission .

Yamaoka, a graduate of the law faculty of Keiō University , worked after graduation for the Yasuda life insurance and as a secretary for the writer Sōhachi Yamaoka , whose family name he adopted . In the Sangiin election in 1983 , Yamaoka stood on the newly created proportional representation for the Liberal Democratic Party and was elected to number 14 on the list, re-elected in 1989 for another six years. He first joined the Fukuda faction , after the death of Fukuda's successor Shintarō Abe in 1991 he was one of the founders of the Katō group of Katō Mutsuki . In 1987 he was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice , and in 1990 in the Ministry of Finance .

In 1993 , Yamaoka successfully switched to Shūgiin when he achieved the third-highest percentage of votes in the five-mandate Tochigi 2 constituency. In 1994 he left the Liberal Democratic Party with Mutsuki Katō and joined the Renewal Party , in the following years he followed Ichirō Ozawa from the New Progressive Party to the Liberal Party and was thus from 2003 a member of the Democratic Party , including the Ozawa group . For the New Progressive Party he lost the new single-mandate constituency Tochigi 4 to Tsutomu Satō after the electoral reform in 1996 . In 2000 he returned to Shūgiin for the Liberal Party through the North Kantō proportional representation block, where he was re-elected in 2003 and 2005. In the Democratic election victory in 2009 he was able to win his constituency with around 30,000 votes ahead of Satō for the first time.

Yamaoka already held various positions on the board of the New Progress Party, and from 2000 he was chairman of the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs in the Liberal Party. In the Democratic Party he was vice-chairman ( fuku-daihyō ) in 2005 and 2010 and chairman of the committee for parliamentary affairs in 2007. In September 2011, the new chairman Yoshihiko Noda appointed him to his cabinet as chairman of the National Public Security Commission, Minister for Consumers, Food Safety and the Abduction of Japanese Citizens by the Korea DPR . In December 2012, the Sangiin adopted with the local opposition majority a "Rügeresolution" a nonbinding censure motion against Yamoka after he was criticized for connections to and donations from companies that in -level marketing multi systems and pyramid schemes were involved. In a cabinet reshuffle in January 2012, he was replaced by Jin Matsubara .

In the summer of 2012, Yamaoka voted against the bill to double the value added tax and, together with 49 other Democrats around Ichirō Ozawa, submitted his resignation from the party, which the party leadership answered with exclusion. He joined Ozawa's Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi, where he took over the deputy party chairmanship as daihyō-daikō , and then followed Ozawa into his parties ( Nippon Mirai no Tō → Seikatsu no Tō → Liberal Party). For the Mirai no Tō he failed in the Shūgiin election 2012 with 12.3% of the votes only in third place behind Tsutomu Satō and Takao Fujioka ( Minna no Tō ).

In the 2013 Sangiin election he tried for the Seikatsu no Tō in the nationwide proportional representation electoral district again to make the leap into the upper house, with 56,372 votes, although the Seikatsu no Tō reached first place on the list, but missed this with only 1.8% of the votes in the proportional representation a seat.

Yamaoka's third son Tatsumaru is a former NHK journalist and was a Shūgiin MP for the Democratic Party through the Hokkaidō proportional representation from 2009 to 2012.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cabinet Interview: Despite pyramid sales donations, new consumer chief vows to run tight ship. In: The Japan Times . September 16, 2011, accessed January 25, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Upper House censures minister. Ichikawa, Yamaoka censured in Diet. In: The Japan Times . December 10, 2011, accessed January 25, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Criticized Minister loose posts / Reshuffle forces controversial Ichikawa, Yamaoka from the Cabinet. In: Yomiuri Shimbun Online. January 14, 2012, archived from the original on January 16, 2012 ; accessed on January 25, 2012 (English).
  4. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , election results Shūgiin 2012: Tochigi
  5. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , election results Sangiin 2013: Proportional constituency, Seikatsu no Tō ( Memento from June 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Yamaoka, Kenji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 山岡 賢 次 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Tochigi prefecture