Natsuo Yamaguchi
Natsuo Yamaguchi ( Japanese 山口 那 津 男 , Yamaguchi Natsuo ; born July 12, 1952 in Nakaminato (today: Hitachinaka ), Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician, party leader of the Kōmeitō and a member of the Sangiin for Tokyo . From 1993 to 1994 he was Deputy Parliamentary Minister in the Hosokawa Cabinet in the Defense Agency .
Life
Yamaguchi studied law at the University of Tokyo and became a member of the Tokyo Bar Association after passing the 1979 bar exam and completing his legal clerkship in 1982. From 1988 he worked at Nihon Bengoshi Rengōkai , the Japanese Association of Bar Associations.
The change in politics made Yamaguchi in the Shūgiin election in 1990 , when he ran for the Kōmeitō in the old five-mandate constituency Tokyo Prefecture 10 and was elected with the third highest percentage of votes. In 1993 he was confidently confirmed in office. Like the majority of Kōmeitō members, he joined the New Progress Party (NFP) after the failure of the anti-LDP coalition in 1994 . As a candidate for the NFP, he lost the new constituency Tokyo 17 to Katsuei Hirasawa ( LDP ) in 1996 and also failed in the second attempt, now again for the ("new") Kōmeitō, in the Shūgiin election in 2000 .
Yamaguchi then tried in the 2001 Sangiin election to win back one of the four seats in Tokyo Prefecture for the Kōmeitō; in the half available for election, the Kōmeitō was not represented since 1995, when the party was part of the NFP. He received over 800 thousand votes and moved into the Sangiin with the second highest percentage of votes. In 2007 , 2013 and 2019 he was re-elected for a further six years.
2008 Yamaguchi rose to the top Kōmeitō when he took over the chairmanship of the Political Research Council . When the party chairman Akihiro Ōta resigned after the Kōmeitō defeat in the Shūgiin election in 2009 , Yamaguchi Ōta's successor took over. He wanted the Kōmeitō, which was again in the opposition for the first time after almost a decade of coalition with the LDP, on an independent course, even if they continued to cooperate with the LDP in individual elections, and despite this concluded a coalition with the now ruling Democratic Party some common concerns like prefectural and local voting rights for foreigners. The national parliamentary election campaigns in 2010 and 2012 contested the LDP and Kōmeitō with a common nomination strategy and took over the government together again in 2012 under Shinzō Abe . In September 2018, he was unanimously elected party chairman for the sixth time and is the longest-serving Kōmeitō chairman since Takeiri Yoshikatsu ( 竹 入 義 勝 ; party chairman from 1967 to 1986).
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Sangiin , MP: Yamaguchi Natsuo (Japanese, English )
Individual evidence
- ↑ New Komeito gropes for its own brand; LDP ties now nonissue. In: The Japan Times . October 6, 2009, accessed January 18, 2010 .
- ^ New Komeito's leader lays into 'wavering' DPJ, rules out coalition. In: The Japan Times . June 26, 2010, accessed January 18, 2010 .
- ↑ 公 明 党 大会 、 山口 代表 6 選 を 承認 幹事 長 に 斉 藤 氏 . In: Nihon Keizai Shimbun . September 30, 2018. Retrieved October 10, 2018 (Japanese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yamaguchi, Natsuo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 山口 那 津 男 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nakaminato , Ibaraki Prefecture |