Mitsuru Sakurai

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Mitsuru Sakurai

Mitsuru Sakurai ( Japanese 櫻井 充 , Sakurai Mitsuru ; born May 12, 1956 in Sendai , Miyagi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( Democratic Party , Kan Group → Democratic Progressive Party → Democratic People's Party → Independent / LDP Group ), MP for Miyagi in the Sangiin , the upper house of the national parliament , and was "Vice Minister" in the Ministry of Finance from 2010 to 2011 under the Kan cabinet .

Sakurai graduated from the "Tokyo Medical and Dental University" and earned a medical doctor ( hakushi ) at the graduate school of Tōhoku University . From 1996 he was the medical director of a department at the central Iwate Hospital in Ichinoseki .

In 1998 Sakurai turned to politics and stood in the 1998 Sangiin election for the Democratic Party in Miyagi Prefecture (two seats per election) and received the highest percentage of votes (26.0%) with around 245 thousand votes. In 2004 and 2010 he was re-elected with the second highest percentage of votes, but a clear lead over the third-placed. In Sangiin, he dealt with health policy and foreign and fiscal policy issues. In 2005, he was shadow minister for the financial sector in the Democratic shadow cabinet. In the Sangiin, he was temporarily a member of the budget committee and took over the chairmanship of the economic committee in 2009. From September 2010 to September 2011 he was State Secretary ( fukudaijin , "Vice Minister") for the Kan Cabinet ( 1st and 2nd restructuring ) in the Ministry of Finance, from October to December 2012 ( Noda Cabinet (3rd restructuring) ) in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor . From 2014 to 2017, with one interruption in 2016, he chaired the Sangiin Special Committee on Reconstruction after the Great East Japanese Earthquake.

In the 2016 Sangiin election , Miyagi became a single-mandate constituency; but Sakurai won the Democratic Progressive Party (DFP), founded a few months earlier, with the united front support of the CPJ , SDP and Seikatsu no Tō with 51.1% of the votes against the previous co-owner Yutaka Kumagai ( LDP , supported by Kōmeitō , Kokoro ; 47.0 %) for a fourth term.

In 2019 he was one of the opponents of the parliamentary group union with the KDP and smaller partners in the Democratic People's Party (DVP), which was formed from the DFP, and submitted his resignation, but initially remained a member of the new parliamentary group. In May 2020 he left the common group and joined the LDP group.

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  1. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , election results Sangiin 2016: Miyagi
  2. ↑ 桜 井 氏 の 離 党 届 受理 国民 民主党. In: Kahoku Shimpō . November 21, 2019, accessed May 28, 2020 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 参 院 宮城 ・ 桜 井 充 氏 が 自 民 会 派 へ 入党 に は 慎重 姿勢. In: Kahoku Shimpō . May 16, 2020, accessed May 28, 2020 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ 国民 民主 、 桜 井 充 氏 を 除籍 処分 へ. In: Nihon Keizai Shimbun Morning Edition / nikkei.com. May 21, 2020, accessed May 28, 2020 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Sakurai, Mitsuru
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 櫻井 充 (Japanese); 桜 井 充 (Japanese, Shinjitai)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Sendai , Miyagi Prefecture