Minoru Yanagida

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Minoru Yanagida (2010)

Minoru Yanagida ( Japanese 柳 田 稔 , Yanagida Minoru ; born November 6, 1954 in Kagoshima , Kagoshima Prefecture , registered in Fukuyama , Hiroshima Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the People's Democratic Party , member of the Sangiin for Hiroshima and was Minister of Justice from September to November 2010 in the cabinet of Kan .

Life

Yanagida, who temporarily interrupted his studies at the University of Tokyo to work in a sushi restaurant, initially worked for Kobe Seikōsho ( Kobelco ) after graduating in 1983 , where he was also active in the union. In 1990 he switched to politics and ran for the Shūgiin election in 1990 in the five-mandate Hiroshima constituency 3 - the constituency of Kiichi Miyazawa and Shizuka Kamei - as a candidate for the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) for parliament. With the fourth highest share of the vote, he won a seat; In 1993 he was able to outperform the SPJ candidate and was confirmed in third place behind Miyazawa and Kamei.

After the failure of the anti-LDP coalitions of Morihiro Hosokawa and Tsutomu Hata in 1993/94, Yanagida, like most DSP members, participated in the founding of the New Progressive Party . For this he ran in 1996 in the newly created constituency Hiroshima 7 and was clearly defeated by Kiichi Miyazawa. Two years later, Yanagida returned to Parliament as an independent candidate in the 1998 Sangiin election as a member of parliament for Hiroshima Prefecture (two seats per election). He then joined the Democratic Party and belongs to the Democratic Socialist Society , in which mainly former DSP members gather. In 2004 he was confirmed with the highest (before Ikuo Kamei ), in 2010 and 2016 with the second highest percentage of votes (behind Yōichi Miyazawa ) for a further six years. In the Sangiin he was among other things chairman of the committee for health, social affairs and labor (from 2009) and general secretary of the DPJ-Sangiin group (from 2010).

During a cabinet reshuffle in September 2010, Prime Minister Naoto Kan appointed Yanagida as Minister of Justice to his cabinet and also made him responsible for the " kidnapping issue [of Japanese citizens by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea] ". On November 14, 2010, at an event in his constituency, he said that the office of Justice Minister was simple: he could answer all questions from Parliament to which he had no answer with two standard sentences ( 「個別 の 事 案 に つ い て は は 答 答 え を 差 し 控 えます」 , Kobetsu no jian ni tsuite wa okotae o sashihikaemasu ," I see them starting to comment on individual cases "; 「法と証拠に基づいて適切にやっております」 , hō to Shoko ni motozuite tekisetsu ni Yatte orimasu " I act appropriately on the basis of law and evidence ”). The opposition saw this statement as a disregard for parliament, sought a "complaint resolution" in Sangiin, where it holds the majority, and threatened to delay the deliberations on the additional budget for the 2010 fiscal year. Yanagida was reprimanded by Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku and apologized to the Sangiin Budget Committee for his statements. On November 22, 2010, he resigned from his ministerial office.

Web links

Commons : Minoru Yanagida  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Election Results Sangiin 2016, Prefectural Constituencies, Hiroshima
  2. ↑ 就任 を 祝 う 会 で の 発 言 内容 ＝ 柳 田 法相 辞 任 . In: Jiji Tsūshin . November 22, 2010. Retrieved November 22, 2010 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ Japan's Justice Minister resigns because of a joke that has gone wrong. In: AFP . November 22, 2010, archived from the original on January 24, 2013 ; Retrieved November 22, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Yanagida faces censure motion over Diet snub. In: The Japan Times . November 18, 2010, accessed November 22, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Kan says he won't seek Yanagida's head over Diet gaffe. In: The Japan Times . November 19, 2010, accessed November 22, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Yanagida prospects looking grimmer. Kan defends justice chief as opposition plans censure. In: The Japan Times . November 20, 2010, accessed November 22, 2010 .
  7. ↑ Yanagida denies he intends to resign. In: The Japan Times . November 22, 2010, accessed November 22, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Yanagida announces resignation over verbal gaffe. In: The Japan Times . November 22, 2010, archived from the original on July 15, 2012 ; accessed on November 22, 2010 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Yanagida, Minoru
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 柳 田 稔 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Kagoshima , Kagoshima Prefecture