Hiroshi Nakai (politician)

Hiroshi Nakai ( Japanese 中 井 洽 , Nakai Hiroshi; born June 10, 1942 in Changchun , Republic of China (today: People's Republic of China ); † April 22, 2017 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese politician , a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house, most recently for the Democratic Party , and ministers. Within the party, he belonged to the Ozawa and Kawabata groups .

Life

Hiroshi Nakai was born five years after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War in Xinjing / Shinkyō in the puppet state of Manchukuo . His father Tokujirō worked for the public Nippon Denshin Denwa (today: Nippon Denshin Denwa KK / NTT) on the mainland and belonged to the Shūgiin after the end of the war for six legislative periods as a member of the right wing of the Socialist Party of Japan .

Hiroshi Nakai graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Keiō University . He worked as his father's secretary and ran after his retirement from politics in the 1972 election as an independent for the Shūgiin. In the second attempt in 1976 he was elected for the first time in the 1st constituency of Mie , his father's constituency, for the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) with the fifth highest percentage of votes. He was then re-elected ten times - with the exception of the 1986 Shūgiin election . Since 1996 he ran in the constituency Mie 1, which he won in 1996 and 2009, and in the Tōkai proportional representation. In the Shūgiin he was chairman of the Committee on Trade and Industry (1993) and Chairman of the Committee for the Relocation of Parliament and Other Bodies (2000).

In the Hata cabinet , in which the DSP was involved, Nakai replaced Justice Minister Shigeto Nagano in 1994 , who had been forced to resign for denying the Nanking massacre . When the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) returned to government in the same year, Nakai helped found the New Progressive Party . After their dissolution in 1997, he joined the Liberal Party of Ichiro Ozawa . In 2002 he became deputy party chairman, a year later after the Liberals joined the Democratic Party (DPJ), he became deputy party chairman of the DPJ. In 2007, Nakai, like Agriculture Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka (LDP), had to admit bogus information about costs in his annual reports for political funds.

After the DPJ's victory in the Shūgiin election in 2009 , Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama appointed him to his cabinet as chairman of the National Public Security Commission and also made him responsible for the kidnapping issue (rachi mondai) . He remained a minister in the Kan cabinet until September 2010. He was then chairman of the Shūgiin Budget Committee until 2012.

For the 2012 Shūgiin election , Nakai retired from politics. Like Prime Minister Abe and other cabinet and LDP party members, Nakai was close to Nippon Kaigi , who was considered revisionist .

He died of stomach cancer in a Tokyo hospital on April 22, 2017, at the age of 74 .

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Cabinet Profiles. In: The Japan Times (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 衆議院> 第 34 回 衆議院 議員 選 挙> 三重 県> 三重 1 区 . (No longer available online.) In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures) on September 17, 2008, archived from the original on February 2, 2016 ; Retrieved January 1, 2013 (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.  
2. ↑ DPJ's Nakai also finds faked costs for free office. In: The Japan Times . The Japan Times Ltd., March 15, 2007, accessed September 2, 2009 . 
3. ↑ 「物 言 う 委員長」 中 井 洽 氏 が 引退 表明 . In: Asahi Shimbun Digital. October 25, 2012, archived from the original on October 25, 2012 ; Retrieved January 1, 2013 (Japanese). 
4. ↑ 日本 会議 国会 議員 懇談 会 の メ ン バ ー In: asyura2.com. September 2, 2009 (Japanese).
5. ^ Former Diet member Hiroshi Nakai dies at age 74. In: The Japan Times . The Japan Times Ltd., April 24, 2017, accessed April 25, 2017 .