Nobuaki Koga

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Nobuaki Koga ( Japanese 古 賀 伸 明 , Koga Nobuaki ; born February 23, 1952 in Fukuoka Prefecture ) is a Japanese trade unionist. From 2009 to 2015 he was chairman of the largest national trade union confederation Rengo .

After studying at the engineering faculty of Miyazaki University , Koga was employed by Matsushita Denki Sangyō in 1975 . In the company union there, he took on management positions early on, first in a branch association, then on the national board. He became a member of the board of directors in 1986, and in 1996 chairman of the national Matsushita-Denki-Sangyō union. In 2002 he became chairman of the metalworkers union confederation Kinzoku Rōkyō ( IMF-JC ), 2005 unopposed general secretary of the Rengō.

In 2009 he was elected to succeed Tsuyoshi Takagi as Rengō Chairman, and in 2011 he was confirmed in office for a further two years. The close ties to the Rengō since the founding of the Democratic Party (DP) - albeit less close than between the predecessor associations and the earlier left-wing parties - are occasionally questioned after Koga's inauguration, which took place almost at the same time as the DP took over government: in 2011 he - contrary to the previous Rengō and government policy - the Rengō as an opponent of nuclear energy in the national energy policy debate; In 2012, he was probably the first Rengo president to address the executive board of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which had been in opposition after decades of government . In other areas, such as the ban on strikes in the public sector, Rengō and DP continue to work closely together. In the internal power struggle between Naoto Kan and Ichirō Ozawa in the 2010 primaries, he called on the DP to maintain the party's unity.

In 2015 he was replaced by Rikio Kōzu in the Rengō presidency.

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  1. ↑ Takagi bids for Rengo leadership. In: The Japan Times . September 22, 2005, accessed June 30, 2012 .
  2. ^ Labor leader hints at cooler DPJ ties. In: The Japan Times . June 29, 2012, accessed June 30, 2012 .
  3. ^ Labor group Rengo shifts to anti-nuclear policy. In: The Japan Times . October 5, 2011, accessed June 30, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Editorial: Rengo takes an anti-nuclear stance. In: The Japan Times . October 12, 2011, accessed June 30, 2012 .
  5. ^ Civil servant pay cuts clear Lower House. Opposition gets way: Collective bargaining ban remains in place. In: The Japan Times . February 24, 2012, accessed June 30, 2012 .
  6. ^ Kan-Ozawa talks on DPJ feud due Saturday. In: The Japan Times . December 25, 2010, accessed June 30, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Koga, Nobuaki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 古 賀 伸 明 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Fukuoka Prefecture