Masahiko Yamada

Masahiko Yamada

Masahiko Yamada ( Japanese 山田 正彦 , Yamada Masahiko ; born April 8, 1942 in Fukue (today: Gotō ), Nagasaki Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician. Between 1993 and 2012 he was a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament, from Nagasaki, for a total of five electoral terms.

Life

Yamada, a graduate of Waseda University , passed his bar exam ( shihō shiken ) in 1969 , but then set up a cattle breeding business in his home country. After business difficulties in the wake of the oil crisis, he set up a law firm in Nagasaki , but then turned back to the livestock industry with the opening of meat trading shops and restaurants.

For the first time in 1979 , Yamada ran for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the five-mandate 1st constituency of Nagasaki for the Shūgiin, landing only in eighth place with around 32,000 votes. Two further candidacies as independent, now in the 2nd constituency of Nagasaki (four seats), in the elections in 1986 and 1990 also failed. In 1993 , Yamada ran again as a candidate for the Renewal Party , achieved the highest percentage of votes in the 2nd constituency and became a member of parliament. From 1994 he was a member of the New Progressive Party , for which he ran in 1996 in the new constituency of Nagasaki 3 , but was subject to Kazuo Torashima (LDP). In 2000 he joined, now for the Liberal Party Ichirō Ozawa . He lost the constituency even more clearly to Torashima, but was re-elected through the Kyūshū proportional representation.

From 2003 Yamada belonged to the Democratic Party (DP), for which he was confirmed as a member of parliament three times, most recently in 2009 again just above his constituency. In the Shūgiin, Yamada was, among other things, a member of the Agriculture Committee. In the party belonged under the chairmen Seiji Mahara and Ichirō Ozawa in 2005, 2006 and 2007 to the "next cabinet", the shadow cabinet of the Democratic Party. After the election victory in 2009, Yamada became State Secretary ("Vice Minister") in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries under Hirotaka Akamatsu in the Hatoyama cabinet , and in 2010 Akamatsu's successor as Minister in the Kan cabinet. In September 2010 he was replaced by Michihiko Kano . From 2010 to 2011 he was chairman of the Shūgiin Agriculture Committee, from 2011 to 2012 of the special ethics committee.

In November 2012 Yamada left the DP and together with Shizuka Kamei founded the Han-TPP ("Anti- TPP "), which after a few days merged with the Genzei Nippon to form Datsu-Gempatsu ("nuclear phase-out"), then in the Nippon Mirai no To Ozawas rose. For this he lost the constituency Nagasaki 3 to Yaichi Tanigawa (LDP) in the Shūgiin election in 2012 and achieved second place on the proportional representation list with his constituency result ( sekihairitsu 75.1%), but the party only won one proportional representation in Kyūshū.

Web links

• Kantei : Brief CV ( Japanese , English )