Kiyoshi Ejima

Kiyoshi Ejima

Kiyoshi Ejima ( Japanese 江 島 潔 , Ejima Kiyoshi ; born April 2, 1957 in Shimonoseki , Yamaguchi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Since a by-election in April 2013, he has represented Yamaguchi Prefecture in Sangiin , the upper house of the National Assembly . From 1995 to 2009 he was mayor of Shimonoseki, the largest city in Yamaguchi.

Ejima, son of Sangiinabgeordneten Yamaguchi Atsushi Ejima , visited the urban Lafayette Elementary School in San Francisco , the district-operated ( "urban") first secondary school in Meguro and from the Tokyo Metropolitan operated Koyama High School in Shinjuku . He then studied chemistry at the engineering faculty of the University of Tokyo and then at the graduate college of the same university chemical and energy engineering ( kagaku energy kōgaku ). He then worked for the Nikkei225-listed construction company Chiyoda Kakō Kensetsu (English Chiyoda ) KK / Corp., From 1990 he was a temporary lecturer (as 非常 勤 講師 , hijōkin kōshi ) at the Tōa Daigaku ("East Asian University") in Shimonoseki.

Ejima's active political career began in 1991 when he was a candidate in the mayoral election in Shimonoseki, but Hiroshi Kameda defeated, a former official of the local government ministry and deputy governor of Tokushima . In the 1993 election for Shūgiin , the lower house of the National Assembly, he ran for the New Japan Party in the four-mandate 1st constituency of Yamaguchi, but was defeated by the three Liberal Democrats Shinzō Abe , Yoshirō Hayashi , Takeo Kawamura and the former Liberal Democrat Takaaki Koga (1993: Renewal Party ): With almost 3,000 votes behind Koga, Ejima landed in fifth place.

1995 Ejima ran against incumbent Kameda again in the mayoral election in Shimonoseki. This time he was able to prevail and was then re-elected for a total of three further terms - because of the formal re-establishment of the city of Shimonoseki through the merger of the old Shimonoseki with neighboring communities, a shinsetsu gappei ("new founding fusion " as opposed to incorporation in the narrower sense, hennyū gappei ), Ejima began a new term of office in 2005 after a new election. In 2009 he no longer ran for another term and withdrew from the mayor's office. He then taught at the Faculty of Life Science ( seimeikagaku-bu ) of the Kurashiki Geijutsu Kagaku Daigaku ("University of Science and Arts Kurashiki") in Kurashiki City ( Okayama Prefecture ).

In April 2013, Ejima came up as an LDP candidate with Kōmeitō election recommendation in the by-election for the seat of Nobuo Kishi (LDP), who resigned in 2012, in the Sangiin. Against the non-party former democrat and Justice Minister Hideo Hiraoka and two other candidates from the KPJ and the "Glücksrealisierungspartei" he clearly prevailed with a low turnout of around 39%: Ejima received 287,604 votes (63.4%), Hiraoka 129,784 (28.6%) ). In 2016 he was re-elected for a full term with 64% of the vote against the unity candidate of the center-left opposition, Atsushi Kōketsu.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 平 成 25 年 4 月 28 日 執行 参議院 山口 県 選 挙 区 選出 議員 補 欠 選 挙 の 投 開票 の 状況 (Voter turnout and results of the Sangiin by-election in the Yamaguchi prefectural constituency on April 28, Heisei 25 (2013)). (No longer available online.) Yamaguchi Prefectural Election Oversight Commission, April 28, 2013, archived from original on May 1, 2013 ; Retrieved April 29, 2013 (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.  
2. ↑ 山口 補選 、 自 民 が 圧 勝 ＝ 参 院 で 民主 に １ 議席 差 - 安 倍 首相 、 政 権 運 営 に 自信 . In: Jiji Tsūshin . April 29, 2013. Retrieved April 29, 2013 (Japanese). 
3. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Sangiin 2016 election results, majority election, Yamaguchi