Shōichi Nakagawa

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Shōichi Nakagawa ( Japanese 中 川 昭 一 , Nakagawa Shōichi ; born July 19, 1953 in Shibuya , Tokyo Prefecture , registered in Hiroo , Hokkaidō ; † October 4, 2009 in Tokyo , Japan ) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), MP des Shūgiin , the lower house, and was his country's finance minister from September 2008 to February 17, 2009 . Within the LDP he belonged to the Ibuki faction .

Life

Nakagawa was the eldest son of Ichirō Nakagawa, a former LDP Shūgiin MP, Minister of Agriculture and Science. He studied political science at the University of Tokyo . After graduating in 1978, he worked for the industrial bank Nihon Kōgyō Ginkō for five years .

In the 1983 Shūgiin election , Nakagawa was elected to parliament for the first time after his father's suicide in his fifth constituency, Hokkaidō (5 seats). In 1989 he became Parliamentary State Secretary (seimujikan) in the Ministry of Agriculture.

Since 1996 Nakagawa ran in the single constituency Hokkaidō 11, which he has since won four times. In the same year he became Deputy Secretary General of the LDP. Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi appointed him to a cabinet for the first time in 1998 as Minister of Agriculture . Under Jun'ichirō Koizumi he was Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry from 2003 , before he took over the Ministry of Agriculture again in 2005. In 2006 he received under Shinzō Abe one of the three leadership positions of the LDP as chairman of the political research committee (PARC) .

In September 2008, Tarō Asō Nakagawa appointed finance minister in his first cabinet . After he spoke indistinctly and appeared dazed at a press conference for the G-7 finance ministers' meeting in Rome, the opposition suspected he was drunk. 15 minutes after the press conference, he visited the Vatican Museums , illegally touched the exhibits and triggered the alarm for the Laocoon group when they climbed the barriers. As a consequence, on February 17, 2009, Nakagawa initially announced his resignation for the period after the budget for the fiscal year 2009 had been approved, but then announced it with immediate effect. His successor in the office of finance minister was Kaoru Yosano .

In the Shūgiin election in 2009 on August 30, 2009, Nakagawa lost his constituency and was not re-elected via the Hokkaidō proportional representation block, where he took fourth place on the LDP list. Like Prime Minister Abe and other cabinet and LDP party members, Nakagawa was close to Nippon Kaigi , who was considered revisionist .

On October 4, 2009, Nakagawa was found dead in his home.

family

His uncle Yoshio Nakagawa is a member of the Sangiin , the House of Lords, for Hokkaidō and a member of the LDP (Ibuki faction). Nakagawa's grandfather was a local politician and a member of the Hiroo Town Council. Nakagawa's wife Yūko has represented the constituency of Hokkaidō 11 in the Shūgiin since 2012.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Japan Finance Minister Resigns In Scandal. In: CBS News.com. February 17, 2009, accessed September 23, 2009 .
  2. ↑ 中 川 氏 、 バ チ カ ン で も お 騒 が せ 美術品 に 素 手 ・ 警報 作 動 . In: asahi.com. Asahi Shimbun- sha, February 21, 2009, archived from the original on August 9, 2009 ; Retrieved September 23, 2009 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ Nakagawa so misbehaved at Vatican Museum. The Japan Times, February 22, 2009, accessed October 4, 2009 .
  4. ↑ 衆議院> 第 45 回 衆議院 議員 選 挙> 北海道> 自 民 . (No longer available online.) In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures), August 31, 2009, archived from the original on August 28, 2009 ; Retrieved October 4, 2009 (Japanese). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.senkyo.janjan.jp
  5. ↑ Kim Hyun-Ki, Sarah Kim: Abe's reshuffle promotes right-wingers. In: Korea Joongang Daily (online). September 5, 2014, accessed September 21, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Japanese ex-minister found dead. In: BBC News. October 4, 2009, accessed March 13, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Nakagawa, Shōichi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 中 川 昭 一 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Shibuya , Tokyo Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2009
Place of death Tokyo , Japan