Motohisa Furukawa

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Motohisa Furukawa ( Japanese 古 川 元 久 , Furukawa Motohisa ; born December 6, 1965 in Nagoya , Aichi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and deputy chairman ( daihyō-daikō ) of the People's Democratic Party , member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , for the 2. Aichi constituency and former minister.

Life

Furukawa studied law at the University of Tokyo and after graduating in 1988 was a civil servant in the Treasury , which sent him in 1993 for a postgraduate course in international relations at Columbia University . In 1994 he left the ministry and turned to politics - in 1995, after the Hanshin Awaji earthquake , he worked as a volunteer in Kobe for a month.

In 1996 Furukawa participated in the founding of the "old" Democratic Party and ran for the first time in the 1996 Shūgiin election in the 2nd constituency of Aichi, which he lost to Hiroyuki Aoki ( NFP ) in 1996 and only entered parliament through the Tōkai proportional representation. Since the election in 2000, he has won his constituency eight times in a row (as of December 2017).

After the Democrats took over government in 2009, Furukawa was initially State Secretary ( fuku-daijin , "Vice Minister") in the Cabinet Office in the Hatoyama Cabinet , and from 2010 to January 2011, under Prime Minister Naoto Kan, he was one of the three Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries in the Kan cabinet . In September 2011, it called Kan's successor Yoshihiko Noda as Minister of State at the Cabinet Office for Special Tasks (economic, financial, scientific, technology policy, "National Strategy" and an "integrated social security and tax reform") in his cabinet . He remained in office until the third cabinet reshuffle in October 2012, after which he was chairman of the cabinet committee in the Shūgiin for a few weeks. After the merger of the Democratic Party and Ishin no Tō in March 2016, the Democratic Progressive Party (DFP) joined Furukawa and sat from 2015 to 2016 of the special committee for Okinawa and the conflict over the "Northern Territories" (South Kuril Islands). Within the party, he belonged to the Maehara Edano group .

Given the Shūgiin election in 2017 , he switched to the recently founded Kibō no Tō (Eng. "Party of Hope") and then became its general secretary. He continued this post in the Democratic People's Party , which was formed in May 2018 through the merger with the DFP , until the party chairman Yūichirō Tamaki appointed him  one of his deputies in September of that year. The former chief cabinet secretary Hirofumi Hirano became general secretary .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 国民 民主党 が 結 党 、 ６２ 人 参加 幹事 長 に 古 川 元 久 氏 . In: Asahi Shimbun . May 7, 2018, Retrieved December 8, 2018 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Furukawa, Motohisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 古 川 元 久 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagoya , Aichi Prefecture