Naoki Tanaka (politician)
Naoki Tanaka ( Japanese 田中 直 紀 , Tanaka Naoki ; born June 19, 1940 in Kanazawa , Ishikawa Prefecture as 鈴木 直 紀 , Suzuki Naoki ) is a Japanese politician. From 1998 to 2016 he was a member of the Sangiin , the upper house of the national parliament , for the prefecture of Niigata for three terms , most recently as a member of the Democratic Progressive Party .
Naoki Suzuki, the son of the politician Naoto Suzuki , grew up in Tokyo, studied political science at the law faculty of Keiō University and, after graduating in 1965, was employed by Nippon Kōkan KK (English NKK Corp .; today JFE Engineering KK). In 1969 he married Makiko Tanaka , the daughter of LDP General Secretary Kakuei Tanaka ( Tanaka faction , later party chairman-prime minister), whose family name he adopted . In 1981 he left Nippon Kōkan and took on management positions in various companies, including on the board of Echigo Kōtsū , a coach and real estate company of the Tanaka family in Niigata Prefecture, a position he holds to this day.
In 1983 Tanaka switched to politics: In the 1983 election for Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament, he was elected for the first time as an LDP candidate in the three-mandate 3rd constituency of Fukushima . Reelected in 1986, he lost third place in 1990 and thus his mandate by around 200 votes to Gōji Sakamoto (LDP, Abe faction ). In 1993, after the long-standing LDP candidate and former Minister of Social Affairs Kunikichi Saitō ( Miyazawa faction ) withdrew , Tanaka was re-elected as one of only two LDP candidates before, in 1996, under new electoral law, he was given the single constituency of Fukushima 5 to Goji Sakamoto (meanwhile NFP ) and was therefore voted out of office. From 1989 Tanaka was Parliamentary Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the first Kaifu cabinet .
In the 1998 Sangiin election , Tanaka ran as an independent candidate with the support of his wife and a few other MPs in Niigata Prefecture (two seats per election) and was elected with the highest percentage of votes. He then rejoined the LDP and in 2001 became Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture (until September 2001). Re-elected as an LDP candidate in 2004 , he later left the LDP and joined the DPJ in 2009 with his wife , for which he was confirmed in office for a further six years in 2010 . In the Sangiin Tanaka was among other things chairman of the Foreign and Defense Committee (2009-2010) and the special ethics committee (from 2010).
In the 2016 Sangiin election , Tanaka moved to the national proportional representation. Niigata became a single-mandate constituency in 2016, and the Democratic Progressive Party, in which the DPJ was absorbed in spring 2016, later agreed with three other opposition parties on Yūko Mori - until 2013 in the other class for Niigata in the upper house - as the (successful) unity candidate of the opposition. In the proportional representation constituency Tanaka received only 16th place on the Progress Party's list with 86,596 votes and thus left the Sangiin with only eleven proportional representation seats.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ^ Yomiuri Shimbun : Sangiin 2016 election results, proportional representation, Minshin
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tanaka, Naoki |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 田中 直 紀 (Japanese); Suzuki, Naoki (maiden name); 鈴木 直 紀 (Japanese, maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kanazawa , Ishikawa Prefecture |