Mamoru Nishida

Mamoru Nishida ( Japanese 西 田 司 , Nishida Mamoru ; born May 13, 1928 in Ōzu , Ehime Prefecture ; † May 9, 2014 in Ehime Prefecture) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), who was a member of the Lower House for 27 years ( Shūgiin ) and was a minister several times.

Life

Mayor, Member of the House of Commons and Head of State Land Authority

Mamoru Nishida graduated after attending school in the district of Kita studying agronomy at the University of Ehime . He began his political career in local politics in 1959 when he was elected mayor of Nagahama , a small town in Kita County, as a candidate for the LDP , and held this position until 1963.

In the Shūgiin election of December 5, 1976 , he was elected as the successor to Eikichi Takahashi in the Ehime III district for the first time as a member of the lower house (Shūgiin) and belonged to this after eight re-elections until 2003. Within his party he belonged to the so-called Thursday Club (Mokuyō kurabu) , which later became the Heisei Kenkyūkai , the second largest faction of the LDP faction . In the following years he worked closely with Hiromu Nonaka .

After Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu reshuffled his second cabinet on December 29, 1990 , Nishida became head of the State Land Authority ( Kokudo-chō ) , in which he was previously Parliamentary State Secretary. He held this office until November 5, 1991 and was therefore responsible for the regulation of land use, regional planning and parts of disaster control. During his term of office, the Unzen volcano was active at the beginning of the 1990s, when 50 people were killed and plans to evacuate 16,000 people were drawn up. This was the worst natural disaster in Japan for 32 years, as during the tenure of then-Minister of Construction Isamu Murakami by the Typhoon Vera in the Ise Bay in September 1959, 5000 people were killed and 1.5 million people homeless.

Keizo Obuchi supporter and minister of the interior

Together with the former Minister of Post and Telecommunications and Transport Minister Kanezō Muraoka and the former Transport Minister Shinji Satō , he was one of the supporters of Keizō Obuchi when he was elected chairman of Heisei Kenkyūkai in 1992 as the successor to Shin Kanemaru .

After Keizō Obuchi himself became Prime Minister on July 30, 1998, he appointed him Minister of the Interior ( Jichi daijin ) and Chairman of the National Public Security Commission (Kokka kōan iinkai) in his cabinet . He held these ministerial posts until Obuchi formed a coalition with the Liberal Party of Ichirō Ozawa on January 14, 1999 , and Takeshi Noda was his successor as Interior Minister and Chairman of the National Public Security Commission and thus the only minister of the Liberal Party in the downsized by three ministers was reshaped Obuchi's cabinet .

During his time as a minister, he was a member of parliament that played a decisive role in the interests of his home province of Ehime. So he played an essential role in 1999 when Moriyuki Katō was elected governor of Ehime Prefecture for the first time, and was surprisingly able to prevail with 420,000 votes against the incumbent governor Sadayuki Iga , who received just under 240,000 votes. He also stood up for the construction of the highway in the Nan'yo region to strengthen the southern part of Ehime Prefecture. Most recently he sat down with the then mayor of Matsuyama and today's governor of Ehime, Tokihiro Nakamura , for the cancer center of Shikoku in Matsuyama operated by the National Hospital Organization (Kokuritsu byōin kikō) .

On July 4, 2000, Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori reappointed Nishida Mamoru as Minister of the Interior and Chairman of the National Public Security Commission in his second cabinet as part of a cabinet reshuffle , and now held these offices until the reshuffle of this cabinet on December 5, 2000 and his with it related replacement by Toranosuke Katayama , who also became Minister of Post at the same time. In 2002 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Rising Sun for his services .

During the 2003 term of office of Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi, when the Special Measures Act on the implementation of security measures, humanitarian and reconstruction aid activities in Iraq was voted on , he abstained after an open discussion in Kokkai requested by Makoto Koga , the parliament of Japan, was rejected by the government.

In the Shūgiin election of November 9, 2003 , he did not run again for a parliamentary seat and largely withdrew from political life. In 2005 the Ehime prefecture awarded him the prize for his life's work and in 2008 the city Ō awarded him the title of honorary citizen .

Mamoru Nishida died of pneumonia in a hospital in Ehime Prefecture.

Web links

• 訃 報: 西 田 司 さ ん ８５ 歳 ＝ 元 自治 相 ・ 国家 公安 委員長 . In: Mainichi Shimbun, May 9, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Japan: Key Ministries (rulers.org)