Makoto Taki

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Makoto Taki, 2012

Makoto Taki ( Japanese 滝 実 , Taki Makoto ; born September 15, 1938 in Tokyo , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a former Japanese politician of the Democratic Party (without faction). Until 2012 he was a member of the House of Representatives , the lower house of the national parliament , for the 2nd constituency of Nara and in 2012 Minister of Justice in the Noda cabinet, which was transformed for the second and third time .

Taki, a graduate of the Tokyo University Faculty of Law , became a civil servant in the Ministry of Self-Government after graduating in 1962 , for which he worked, among other things, in the Prefectural Administration of Nara and in the Department of Tax Affairs ( zeimu-kyoku ). In 1981 he became lieutenant governor of Nara under Governor Shigekiyo Ueda . In 1995 he took over the management of the national fire and disaster control authority . His civil service career ended in 1996 when he switched to politics.

In the 1996 election, Taki ran for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the 2nd constituency of Nara and won with around 41% of the vote. In the LDP he joined the later Hashimoto faction of the then party leader Ryūtarō Hashimoto . After the restructuring of the central government in 2001, he received the newly created office of seimujikan (parliamentary state secretary) in the also newly established Ministry of General Affairs , the successor to the Ministry of Self-Government; he held the position until April 2001 and again from January to September 2002. In the 2003 election , Taki lost his constituency to the Democrat Tetsuji Nakamura ( Ozawa group ), but was re-elected through the Kinki proportional representation. From 2004 to 2005 ( Koizumi II cabinet (reshuffle) ) he was State Secretary ( fuku-daijin ) in the Ministry of Justice. As an opponent of the post-privatization operated by the party chairman-Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi , Taki announced his resignation as State Secretary and voted in the "post-parliament" against the post-privatization law. In the resulting new elections , he ran for the New Japan Party of Yasuo Tanaka , lost his constituency in third place, but received the party's only proportional representation in Kinki. In the new party he was first vice-chairman, later chairman of the executive council ( sōmukai ).

In the summer of 2007, Taki left the New Japan Party in a dispute with Yasuo Tanaka over the election program for the 2007 council elections and joined the Democratic Party in December of the same year. For this he was able to win back his constituency in the 2009 parliamentary elections . He then became chairman of the judiciary committee, in 2010 he moved to the party executive committee, and in 2011 again to the executive committee of the judicial committee. In September 2011, after taking up the Noda cabinet, he became State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice again, and in June 2012 he replaced Justice Minister Toshio Ogawa in a cabinet reshuffle . During the third remodeling on October 1, 2012, he was again replaced by Keishū Tanaka . After his resignation, Taki took over the post again on October 24 of the same year.

In the 2012 parliamentary elections, Taki no longer ran for a seat.

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  1. ↑ New Party Nippon loose lawmakers. In: The Japan Times . July 28, 2007, accessed June 12, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Taki, Makoto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 滝 実 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo (city) , Tokyo prefecture