Masahiko Kōmura

Masahiko Kōmura (2008)

Masahiko Kōmura ( Japanese 高 村 正彦 , Kōmura Masahiko ; born March 15, 1942 in Shūnan in Yamaguchi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Within the party, he initially led the Kōmura faction jointly, then alone from 2000 to 2012 . From 1980 to 2017 he was a member of the Yamaguchi House of Commons for twelve terms , from the 1990s he was a member of the government several times, for the first time from 1994 to 1995 as economic planning minister in the Murayama cabinet . From 2012 to 2018 he was deputy party chairman.

Life

Kōmura is the son of the House of Commons Sakahiko Kōmura . Like his father, he studied law at Chūō University . Since 1980 he has been a Member of the House of Commons in his father's constituency (formerly 2nd, now 1st constituency of Yamaguchi Prefecture ) and has been re-elected eight times since then. Since 1994, Kōmura belonged to several cabinets as foreign minister, justice minister and as head of the economic planning authority. Most recently he was Minister of Defense under Prime Minister Shinzō Abe , before his successor Yasuo Fukuda appointed him Foreign Minister in September 2007.

Since February 2004 Masahiko Kōmura has been chairman of the parliamentary group for Japanese-Chinese friendship ( 日中 友好 議員 連 盟 , Nitchū Yūkō Giin Renmei ).

Since September 26, 2012 he has been the deputy chairman of the LDP.

For the 2017 general election, Kōmura withdrew as a member of the lower house. The LDP candidacy in the constituency Yamaguchi 1 took over his eldest son Masahiro , who won the seat with a two-thirds majority. As LDP vice chairman Masahiko Kōmura remained at the request of chairman Abe but still in office; the term of office of the party presidium ended regularly in September 2018. After Kōmura's withdrawal, the post of deputy party chairman remained vacant; he himself was appointed the "highest adviser" of the "Central Office for the Promotion of a Constitutional Change " ( 憲法 改正 推進 本部 , kenpō kaisei suishin honbu ) of the LDP.

Awards

• 1999: Great Golden Decoration on Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria

Web links

Commons : Masahiko Kōmura  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Website of the Japanese Cabinet (English)
• The Japan Times online: Cabinet Profiles (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ KOMURA Masahiko ( memento of August 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 13, 2017
2. ↑ 高 村 氏 、 副 総 裁 続 投 へ 首相 、 改 憲 論 議 主導 さ せ る 考 え . In: Asahi Shimbun Digital. October 11, 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2017 (Japanese). 
3. ↑ 安 倍 首相 、 国会 提出 に 向 け て 「改 ​​憲 シ フ ト」 要職 に 側 近 を 多数 起用 . In: Sankei Shimbun . October 3, 2018, accessed March 11, 2020 (Japanese). 
4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)

predecessor	Office	successor
Nobutaka Machimura	Foreign Minister 2007-2008	Hirofumi Nakasone
Yuriko Koike	Defense Minister August – September 2007	Shigeru Ishiba
Keizo Obuchi	Foreign Minister 1998–1999	Yōhei Kono