Nakamura Taro

Nakamura Tarō ( Japanese 中 村 太郎 ; * January 2, 1918 in Katsunuma , Yamanashi Prefecture ; † April 22, 2011 in Kofu , Yamanashi Prefecture) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

Life

Nakamura Taro studied after school at Waseda University and began his military service in the Imperial Japanese Army in 1941 after Japan entered World War II . Most recently, he was promoted to captain while serving in Manchuria , before becoming chairman of the (then elected) education committee of the city of Yamanashi after the end of the war . In the regional elections in April 1959 he was elected as an LDP candidate for the first of four legislative terms in the prefectural parliament, he later became parliamentary president and chairman of the LDP prefectural association.

In July 1974 he was elected to the House of Lords ( Sangiin ) as the representative of the LDP for Yamanashi Prefecture (one mandate per election) and was a member of the so-called "House of Councils" until 1992. During the first term of Prime Minister Ōhira Masayoshi , he was Parliamentary Undersecretary to Finance Minister Kaneko Ippei between December 1978 and November 1979 .

During his membership in the House of Councils, he was not only deputy chairman of the LDP parliamentary group , but also chairman of a special committee on taxes.

As a member of the Takeshita faction , the faction of Prime Minister Takeshita Noboru , he was appointed Minister of Labor ( Rōdō-daijin ) in his cabinet on November 6, 1987 and held this office until the cabinet was reorganized on December 27, 1988.

After leaving the House of Lords in 1992, he was temporarily chairman of the Yamanashi Prefecture Road Safety Association. He died at the age of 93 on April 22, 2011. His son Nakamura Toshio is a professor at Waseda University.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sangiin : List of former members ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Prof. Kusano Atsushi, Keiō University: Membership of the ministers in the cabinet and the owners of the “three party offices” in the LDP  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ jiji.com, April 22, 2011 , accessed June 1, 2011 (Japanese)

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Nakamura is the family name, Tarō the first name.