Masaharu Nakagawa (politician, 1950)

Masaharu Nakagawa, 2012

Masaharu Nakagawa ( Japanese 中 川 正 春 , Nakagawa Masaharu ; born June 10, 1950 in Matsusaka , Mie prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( LDP → NJP → NFP → Kokumin no Koe → GGP → DPJ → DFP → non-party → KDP ) and a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the Japanese parliament , for the 2nd constituency of Mie and former minister.

Life

Nakagawa, a graduate of Georgetown University , worked from 1975 for the Japan Foundation , the foundation for international cultural exchange of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1983 he switched to politics when he was elected to the Mie Prefectural Parliament as a candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party in the regional elections in April for the first of a total of three legislative terms. He joined in the "boom of new parties" in the early 1990s of the New Japan Party , later the New Progress Party , for which he won the new constituency Mie 2 in the 1996 Shūgiin election , which he then won six times for the Democratic Party Episode defended. In the Shūgiin he was a member of the budget committee and the special committees on the constitution and international terrorism (Iraq special committee). In the Democratic Party, Nakagawa was chairman of the Mie Prefectural Association from 2001 to 2006, and in the National Party he took up positions from 2004, when he chaired the Zeisei-chōsakai , the “research council for the tax system” for a year he in the "next cabinet", the shadow cabinet of the Democrats, under Ichirō Ozawa shadow finance minister.

After the Democratic election victory in 2009 , when Nakagawa won his constituency with a record 138,000 votes, he became vice minister in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology after taking office in Hatoyama's cabinet . He also held the position in the subsequent Kan cabinet until September 2010.

After Kan was replaced as Prime Minister by Yoshihiko Noda in September 2011 , he appointed Nakagawa Minister for Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology in his cabinet , but replaced him with Hirofumi Hirano in January 2012 when the cabinet was reshuffled . In February 2012, Noda reappointed him as Minister of State at the Cabinet Office in his reshaped cabinet , where he took over several responsibilities (“new community” ( atarashii kōkyō ), combating the decline in birth rates, gender equality, disaster control) from Vice Prime Minister Katsuya Okada and Reconstruction Minister Tatsuo Hirano . When the cabinet was reshuffled again in June 2012, he gave up the ministerial post for falling births to Minister of Social Affairs Yōko Komiyama and took over responsibility for the "reform of the civil service" ( kōmuin seido kaikaku ). He remained minister until cabinet reshuffle in October 2012.

After the defeat of the Democratic Party in the Shūgiin election in 2012 , Nakagawa (first) was Deputy General Secretary ( kanjichō-daikō ); he himself had defended his constituency with a clear loss of votes, but with a lead of over 25,000 votes over his next opponent. In the merger of the Democratic Progressive Party , the successor party of the DPJ, with the Party of Hope in May 2018 to form the Democratic People's Party , Nakagawa did not participate and instead joined the regional political association Mie Minshu Rengō ("Democratic League Mie") made up of former DFP members . In July 2018 he became its chairman. In September 2019 he joined the Constitutional Democratic Party together with other ex-democrats like Jun Azumi and was appointed there as a "regular advisor" ( jōnin-komon ). At the same time he withdrew from the chairmanship of Mie Minshu Rengo and was replaced by Katsuya Okada .

Web links

• Official website (Japanese, parts of English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 三重 民主 連 合 旧 民進 系 結集 へ 設立 総 会 に ５５ 人 . In: Mainichi Shimbun . July 29, 2018. Retrieved December 30, 2019 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ 三重 民主 連 合 新 会長 に 岡田 氏 定期 総 会 で 承認 . In: Ise Shimbun . November 25, 2019. Retrieved December 30, 2019 (Japanese).