Nobuteru Ishihara
Nobuteru Ishihara ( Japanese 石 原 伸 晃 , Ishihara Nobuteru ; born April 19, 1957 in Zushi , Kanagawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician, a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament, from Tokyo Prefecture for the Liberal Democratic Party , in which he has been since 2012 leads the Ishihara faction , and is a former minister of deregulation, transport and the environment.
Life
Ishihara is the eldest son of the writer, actor and politician Shintarō Ishihara . After studying at Elmira College in New York and at Keiō University , he worked for Nippon Television from 1981 . While his father was a member of parliament for the 2nd constituency of Tokyo , he ran successfully in the 1990 Shūgiin election in the 4th constituency of Tokyo (5 seats) and has been re-elected six times since 1996 in the new one-mandate constituency of Tokyo 8 . At first he did not join any faction in the LDP.
From 1996 to 1997 Ishihara was Parliamentary State Secretary at MITI . In 2001, Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi appointed him to his cabinet as Minister of State for Deregulation, and in 2003 as Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport . In 2004 the ministry went to the coalition partner Kōmeitō . Then he was, among other things, chairman of the motorway committee.
Under the Prime Minister and party chairman Shinzō Abe , Ishihara was chairman of the LDP's Political Research Council after the cabinet reshuffle in August 2007; a month later he was followed by Yasuo Fukuda Sadakazu Tanigaki on the post. In December 2007 he joined the Yamasaki faction.
In the run-up to the election of the LDP chairman on September 22, 2008 to succeed Fukuda, Ishihara stated that he considered himself to be opposite General Secretary Tarō Asō at the other end of the political spectrum and would run against him if there were no other rivals Asōs for election. He came - 19 years after the failed candidacy of his father - and received the fourth-highest percentage of votes behind Asō, Kaoru Yosano and Yuriko Koike .
Ishihara was after Tarō Asō's inauguration, Deputy Secretary General ( kanjichō-dairi ) of the LDP and is chairman of the Tokyo Prefectural Association of the LDP - his resignation after the 2009 parliamentary elections he later withdrew. In 2010, Sadakazu Tanigaki appointed him as general secretary for the second time in the inner circle of the LDP party leadership .
In the election of Tanigaki's successor in September 2012, he ran again, but was defeated in the first ballot Shigeru Ishiba and Shinzō Abe, who prevailed in the second ballot. In December 2012, Abe appointed Ishihara as environment minister to his second cabinet . Shortly thereafter, Ishihara also took over the chairmanship of the Yamasaki, henceforth Ishihara faction from Taku Yamasaki. In September 2014, Ishihara was replaced as Environment Minister by Yoshio Mochizuki during a cabinet reshuffle .
Web links
- Official website (Japanese, English)
- Brief résumé on the website of the Japanese Cabinet (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Associated Press, Sep. 4, 2008: Poll shows Japanese want snap elections
- ↑ BBC News, September 4, 2008: Japanese leadership race hots up
- ^ Ishihara fifth to enter race for LDP presidency. Son of outspoken governor: 'I don't have an ounce of self-interest'. In: The Japan Times . September 10, 2008, accessed July 15, 2009 .
- ↑ 石 原 伸 晃 氏 、 自 民 都 連 会長 を 辞 任 都 議 選 大敗 で 引 責. In: Asahi Shimbun . July 13, 2009, archived from the original on July 17, 2009 ; Retrieved July 15, 2009 (Japanese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ishihara, Nobuteru |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 石 原 伸 晃 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zushi , Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan |