Michihiko Kano

Michihiko Kano ( Japanese 鹿野 道 彦 , Kano Michihiko ; born January 24, 1942 in Yamagata , Yamagata Prefecture ) is a former Japanese politician of the Democratic Party (DPJ). Until 2012 he was a member of the Shūgiin , the Lower House, for the 1st constituency of Yamagata and from September 2010 to June 2012 Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the cabinets Kan, 1st reshuffle , 2nd reshuffle , Noda and 1st reshuffle .

Kano, a graduate of Gakushūin University , worked as a secretary for his father Hikokichi , Shūgiin deputy of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for the then four-mandate constituency Yamagata 1. After his father achieved only the fifth highest share of the vote in the 1972 Shūgiin election , Michiko Kano tried To win back his father's seat as an LDP candidate in 1976 . With around 7,000 votes ahead of the former cabinet secretary Yasumi Kurogane (LDP, Ōhira faction ), he reached fourth place and was elected as a member of parliament for the first of eleven legislative terms. In the LDP, he joined the Fukuda faction .

1981 Kano became parliamentary state secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Transport , 1986 chairman of the Shūgiin Transport Committee. He was first appointed minister in 1989 as Minister of Agriculture in the first Kaifu cabinet ; three years later, in 1992, he was appointed by Kiichi Miyazawa as head of the general affairs department in his cabinet . When the LDP lost power for the first time in 1993, Kano initially remained in the party and only left the LDP in 1994 after the resignation of the Hosokawa cabinet. He founded the Shintō Mirai ( 新 党 み ら い , "New Future Party") with four other MPs , which went up in December 1994 in the New Progressive Party (NFP). There he ran in December 1997 against Ichirō Ozawa for the party chairmanship, but lost with 230 to 182 votes. Shortly afterwards, the NFP MPs decided to dissolve the party at the end of the year.

Kano was then chairman of the Kokumin no Koe ("voice of the people"). She cooperated in parliament with other NFP successor parties without Ozawa, which joined forces in January 1998 to form the Minseitō and finally became part of the Democratic Party in April of the same year. There he was chairman of the parliamentary affairs committee in 1999, then chairman of the research committee for the constitution and vice chairman ( fuku-daihyō ) of the party in 1999 . After a scandal over a former secretary, he resigned from the party in 2002.

In 2003 Kano - meanwhile returned to the Democratic Party - lost his constituency to Toshiaki Endō (LDP), but remained a member of the Tōhoku electoral block; in the LDP landslide victory in the 2005 election , with an even worse constituency result, he also missed re-election via the proportional representation list. In the democratic election victory in 2009 , Kano Andō was able to beat around 1,300 votes, returned to Shūgiin and then became chairman of the budget committee. A year later, Naoto Kan appointed him to his cabinet as Minister of Agriculture. Yoshihiko Noda took him into his cabinet as the only minister with his own ministry . In his second cabinet reshuffle in June 2012, he lost this post again.

In the Shūgiin election in 2012 , he lost his constituency again to Toshiaki Endō and narrowly missed re-election in the proportional representation block.

In the 2013 Sangiin election , Kano attempted a move to the House of Lords in the national proportional representation electoral district , but with 82,404 votes only reached 13th place nationwide on the list of Democrats who only won seven proportional representation. He then announced his withdrawal from politics.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ozawa wins re-election as Shinshinto president. In: The Japan Times . December 18, 1997, accessed September 23, 2010 . 
2. ^ Kano leaves opposition Democrats. Party vice president's secretaries paid by scandal-tainted firm. In: The Japan Times . February 7, 2002, accessed September 23, 2010 . 
3. ^ Kano's ex-secretary Ozaki arrested over tax evasion. In: The Japan Times . February 25, 2002, accessed September 23, 2010 . 
4. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Election results Sangiin 2013, proportional representation, Democratic Party ( memento of the original from July 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.