Masahiko Shibayama

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Masahiko Shibayama (2014)

Masahiko Shibayama ( Japanese 柴山 昌 彦 , Shibayama Masahiko ; born December 5, 1965 in Nagoya , Aichi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( Hosoda faction ), member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , for the constituency of Saitama 8 and former Minister for Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology .

Life

Shibayama was born in Nagoya on December 5, 1965 and moved to Tokorozawa in Saitama Prefecture in 1982 . From 1984 to 1990 he studied law at the University of Tokyo  and then joined the company Sumitomo Realty & Development ( 住友 不動産 , Sumitomo Fudōsan ). He left the company just one year later and passed his first legal examination in 1998; The second in 2000 and has since been registered as a lawyer . In 2004 the LDP lower house member Masanori Arai ( 新 井 正 則 , Arai Masanori ) resigned from his seat on the grounds of corruption. When looking for a successor to the vacant seat in the Saitama 8 constituency, the LDP decided on Shibayama, who in the by-election in April 2004 with 44.9% of the votes cast, the Democrat Atsushi Kinoshita ( 木 下 厚 , Kinoshita Atsushi ; 40, 1%) and a CPY candidate and moved into the lower house.

In the 2005 election he was able to expand his lead over Kinoshita and won with 52.5%. From 2008 to 2009 he was "Parliamentary State Secretary" in the Foreign Ministry . In the 2009 election, which was devastating for the LDP , Shibayama lost the constituency to the new Democrat Masatoshi Onozuka ( 小野 塚 勝俊 , Onozuka Masatoshi ), but got  into the lower house with a sekihairitsu ("loss rate") of 79.7% via the proportional electoral block of North Kantō . In 2012 he  won back the constituency and became Deputy Minister of the Interior in the second Abe cabinet . In Shinzō Abe III's cabinet, which was transformed for the first time , Shibayama was one of five special advisers to the Prime Minister . In August 2017 he rose to the position of Deputy General Secretary ( 筆頭 副 幹事 長 ; hittō fuku-kanjichō ) and special advisor to the party chairman in the LDP .

Prime Minister Shinzō Abe appointed Shibayama as Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the reshaped Abe fourth cabinet in October 2018 . When the cabinet was reshuffled again in September 2019 , he was replaced by Kōichi Hagiuda .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b shibamasa.net - し ば や ま 昌 彦 誕生 〜 学生 〜 社会 人 〜 政治家 へ の 道 の り (Japanese), accessed November 24, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Shibayama, Masahiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 柴山昌 彦 (Japanese, Kanji); し ば や ま ま さ ひ こ (Japanese, Hiragana)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagoya , Aichi Prefecture