Nariaki Nakayama

Nakayama campaigning for the 2009 Shūgiin election

Nariaki Nakayama ( Japanese 中山 成 彬 , Nakayama Nariaki ; born June 7, 1943 in Kobayashi , Miyazaki Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( LDP → Tachiagare Nippon → Ishin → Kokoro → Kibō ). With interruptions since 1986 he has been a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament, for a total of seven terms . As a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), in which he belonged to the Machimura faction , he was Minister of Education and Transport in the 2000s. Like Prime Minister Abe and other cabinet and LDP party members, Nakayama is close to Nippon Kaigi , who is considered revisionist .

Life

After graduating from Tokyo University with a law degree , Nakayama was appointed to the Treasury Department in 1966 . From 1975 he worked for the World Bank in Washington, DC for three years. After four more years in the Treasury Department, most recently as head of the ministerial secretariat, he switched to politics.

In the 1983 Shūgiin election , Nakayama ran for a member of parliament for the first time in the 2nd constituency of Miyazaki (2 seats), but only barely achieved the third highest percentage of votes. It was not until the second attempt in 1986 that he made it into parliament. From 1990 to 1991 he was Parliamentary State Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Education.

After Nakayama was voted out in 1993, he returned in the 1996 Shūgiin election in the Miyazaki 1 constituency. In 1999 he took over the chairmanship of the Shūgiin Committee for International Trade and Industry, and in 2001 he became State Secretary ( fuku-daijin ) at MITI . In 2004, Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi appointed him to his second cabinet as Minister of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology . During his tenure, he promoted the textbook dispute by removing mentions of the forced prostitutes (" comfort women ") who were abducted by Japan in World War II from history books for middle school. In a cabinet reshuffle in 2005, he was replaced by Kenji Kosaka .

In September 2008, Prime Minister Tarō Asō gave him the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in his first cabinet . After Nakayama's first interview as a minister, demands were made to resign when he described Japan as "homogeneous". Similar statements had brought other politicians into distress after protests by the Ainu . After violently controversial statements against the Japanese teachers' union, Nikkyōso for short ( 日 教 組 ), he resigned on September 28, after four days in office.

In the Shūgiin election in 2009 , Nakayama initially announced a waiver of the candidacy, then entered as an independent, but lost his constituency to the independent Hidesaburō Kawamura (after the election to the DPJ faction). In 2010 he joined the Tachiagare Nippon of Shintarō Ishihara and Takeo Hiranuma , for whom he ran in the 2010 Sangiin election via the nationwide proportional representation; he received 60,358 preferential votes and thus only reached fourth place on the list, but the party only won one proportional representation. In 2012, Tachiagare Nippon became part of the Nippon Ishin no Kai by Tōru Hashimoto and Shintarō Ishihara. He ran for the new party in the Shūgiin election 2012 : Although he landed in the constituency of Miyazaki 1 with 19.6% of the vote behind the candidates of the major parties in third place; but he was able to win one of the four proportional representation mandates of the Ishin no Kai in Kyūshū. In the summer of 2014 Nakayama Ishihara followed into the Jisedai no Tō.

In 2014 , the Jisedai no Tō remained in all eleven blocks without a single proportional representation seat, in the Kyūshū block (21 seats) it received only 2% of the votes and Nakayama was voted out. Shortly before the 2017 election , he and his wife joined the Party of Hope founded by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike . For this he was re-elected to Shūgiin in the Kyūshū proportional representation.

family

Nakayama's wife Kyōko is a member of the Sangiin , the upper house, and a former minister and has been Kokoro chairwoman since 2015.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• MEXT : Short CV (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.japan-press.co.jp/s/news/?id=4056 Pro-Yasukuni lineup features Aso Cabinet
2. ^ The Japan Times, March 11, 2007: Sex slave history erased from texts; '93 apology next?
3. ↑ AFP, September 26, 2008: New Japan PM asks for time as minister faces quit call ( Memento from September 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ 中山 国 交 相 が 辞 任 へ 問題 発 言 に 批判 、 麻 生 新政 権 に 打 撃. In: Asahi Shimbun. September 27, 2008, archived from the original on September 29, 2008 ; Retrieved September 28, 2008 (Japanese). 
5. ↑ 中山 国 交 相 ２８ 日 に 辞 任 へ. (No longer available online.) In: NHK News. September 27, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 28, 2008 (Japanese).  ( 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.    
6. ↑ AFP, September 28: Japan's transport minister resigned after a few days ( memento of July 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
7. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : election results Shūgiin 2014, proportional representation, Kyūshū, Jisedai
8. ↑ asahi.com - 希望 ・ 中山 成 彬 氏 「自 民 ブ ラ ン ド 強 い」 前 原 氏 批判 も ( Memento from October 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive )