Toshimi Kitazawa

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Kitazawa in October 2009

Toshimi Kitazawa ( Japanese 北 澤 俊美 , Kitazawa Toshimi ; born March 6, 1938 in Nagano , Nagano Prefecture ) is a former Japanese politician ( Liberal Democratic Party → Renewal Party → New Progressive Party → Taiyōtō → Minseitō → Democratic Party ( Hata Group ) → Democratic Progressive Party ), from 1992 to 2016 a member of the Sangiin , the upper house of the national parliament, for Nagano prefecture and from September 2009 to September 2011 his country's defense minister , first in the Hatoyama cabinet , then in the Kan cabinet .

Kitazawa was born in 1938 in Kawanakajima-machi, Nagano. After studying law at Waseda University , he first worked as an employee in Tokyo . From 1975 he was a member of the Nagano Prefectural Parliament for five consecutive terms. In 1992 he was elected to Sangiin as a candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for Nagano (two seats per election) and then belonged to the Renewal Party , the New Progress Party , the "Sun Party" and finally from 1998 to the Democratic Party, for which he was in 1998 and Was re-elected in 2004. In 1994 he became Parliamentary State Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Hata Cabinet in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries .

In the Sangiin, Kitazawa was chairman of the Committee on State Land and Transport (2001), the Committee on Basic National Politics ( kokka kihon seisaku , 2004) and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense (2007). He was also vice chairman ( fuku-daihyō ) of the Democratic Party and is chairman of the Nagano Prefectural Association.

Kitazawa is one of the proponents of a relaxation of the arms export restrictions set out in the Three Principles of Arms Exports. Prime Minister Naoto Kan had planned to relax the export ban at the same time as the new defense guidelines, which were presented in December 2010, but were initially postponed.

To Sangiin election 2016 Kitazawa has not raced for more.

Web links

Commons : Toshimi Kitazawa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 参議院> 第 16 回 参議院 議員 選 挙> 長野 選 挙 区 . (No longer available online.) In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures) September 17, 2008, archived from the original April 8, 2010 ; Retrieved September 16, 2009 (Japanese). 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
  2. ↑ Democratic Party, Nagano Prefecture Association: Executive Board ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dia.janis.or.jp
  3. ↑ Arms trade ban needs easing: Kitazawa to firms. In: The Japan Times . December 2, 2010, accessed January 3, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Arms export ban to stand; budget bills Kan's priority. In: The Japan Times . December 8, 2010, accessed January 3, 2011 .
predecessor Office successor
Yasukazu Hamada Defense Minister
September 16, 2009–2. September 2011 		Yasuo Ichikawa
personal data
SURNAME Kitazawa, Toshimi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 北 澤 俊美 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagano