Masami Tanabu

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Masami Tanabu ( Japanese 田 名 部 匡 省 , Tanabu Masami ; born December 7, 1934 in Hachinohe , Aomori Prefecture ) is a former Japanese ice hockey player , coach and politician . Until 2010 he was a member of the Sangiin , the upper house of the Democratic Party (DPJ) , and was Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the cabinet from 1991 to 1993 . As a hockey player Tanabu took part in the Winter Olympics twice, at the Sapporo Games in 1972 he coached the national team .

Life

Tanabu graduated from Rikkyō University in 1957 with a degree in economics , after which he first pursued his career as a hockey player with the Iwakura team ( 岩 倉 組 ). For the national team he took part in World Championships in 1957 and 1962 , as well as in the 1960s in Squaw Valley and in 1964 in Innsbruck in the Winter Olympics. After his active career, he worked as the coach of the national team, which he headed as head coach at three world championships and the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo .

Tanabu's political career began in 1967 in the Aomori Prefectural Parliament. During this time he was also the coach of the ice hockey team of the Seibu Tetsudo , a forerunner of the Seibu Prince Rabbits . After two legislative terms as a prefectural politician, Tanabu switched to national politics. A first candidacy for Shugiin , the lower house, as an independent candidate failed in 1976 , before joining the election of 1979 as a candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party moved (LDP) into Kokkai. For six consecutive legislative periods he was, among other things, chairman of the telecommunications and transport committees and, in 1985, parliamentary state secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Post.

In November 1991, Prime Minister Miyazawa Kiichi appointed Tanabu Minister of Agriculture. After his re -election in the 1993 Shūgiin election , Tanabu left the LDP and gave up his ministerial post in the outgoing cabinet . In 1994 he switched to the Renewal Party and at the end of the year he participated in the founding of the New Progressive Party (NFP). However, he was defeated in 1996 as a candidate of the NFP under the new electoral law in the single constituency Aomori 3 Environment Minister Tadamori Ōshima (LDP) and lost his mandate.

In 1998 Tanabu returned to parliament when he was elected (one seat) as an independent candidate in the Sangiin election in Aomori Prefecture. In 1999 he participated in the founding of the mushozoku no kai ("Assembly of Independents"), in 2001 he became party chairman. A year later, in 2002, he left the mushozoku no kai and switched to the Democratic Party. In the 2004 election , he was re-elected for a further six years. In 2005 he took over the chairmanship of the committee for land, infrastructure and transport, since 2007 he has headed the “Research Committee for an Aging Society with Declining Births and Social Cohesion ” ( 少子 高 齢 化 ・ 共生 社会 に 関 す る 調査 会長 ) of the Sangiin.

To Sangiin election 2010 Tanabu has not raced for more and withdrew from politics.

family

Tanabu's daughter Masayo was a DPJ member of the Shūgiin for the Tōhoku proportional representation block - in the 3rd constituency of Aomori she was defeated three times by Tadamori Ōshima - and has represented Aomori for the Minshintō in the Sangiin since 2016 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , Sangiin Election Results 2016: Aomori Prefecture
personal data
SURNAME Tanabu, Masami
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 田 名 部 匡 省 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician and ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Hachinohe , Aomori Prefecture , Japan