Naoki Minezaki

Naoki Minezaki ( Japanese 峰 崎 直樹 , Minezaki Naoki ; born October 14, 1944 in Kure , Hiroshima Prefecture ) is a former Japanese politician. From 1992 to 2010 he was a member of the Sangiin , the upper house of the Japanese parliament, for Hokkaidō , most recently as a member of the Democratic Party (DPJ), therein the Yokomichi group of former socialists. From 2009 to 2010 he was State Secretary ( fuku-daijin , "Vice Minister") in the Ministry of Finance .

Life

Minezaki graduated from Hitotsubashi University's Faculty of Economics in 1967 , and then completed postgraduate studies at the same university. He then worked until 1991 for the union of the prefecture and municipal employees (short Jichirō ), then as deputy general secretary of the prefectural association of the Socialist Party of Japan (SPJ) in Hokkaidō. In the Sangiin election in 1992 , he stood as a candidate for the SPJ in Hokkaidō (at that time four seats per election) and moved into the Sangiin with the third highest percentage of votes. Under the SPJ-led Murayama 's cabinetIn 1995 he headed the coalition committee for the tax system, in 1996 he became chairman of the communications committee in Sangiin, and in 1997 chairman of the committee for local administrations ( chihō gyōsei ).

1996 Minezaki participated in the establishment of the Democratic Party, for which he was confirmed in the 1998 and 2004 elections as a member of parliament in Hokkaidō. From 2000 he belonged to several DPJ shadow cabinets as “next finance minister”, “next minister for economy and industry” and as “next minister for the financial sector”. In 2007 he took over the chairmanship of the Sangiin Committee on Economic and Financial Policy. After the Democrats came to power in 2009, Minezaki became State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance in the Hatoyama and Kan Cabinets .

In the 2010 Sangiin election , Minezaki did not run.