Norihisa Tamura

Norihisa Tamura

Norihisa Tamura ( Japanese 田村 憲 久 , Tamura Norihisa ; born December 15, 1964 in Matsusaka , Mie Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( Nukaga faction ), a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament, for the 4th constituency Mie and former Minister of Social Affairs and Labor .

Tamura is the nephew of Hajime Tamura , who represented the then three-mandate constituency Mie 2 in the Shūgiin for the Liberal Democratic Party from 1955 to 1996 and was repeatedly Minister and President of the Shūgiin in the 1970s and 80s. Norihisa Tamura graduated from the Law Faculty of Chiba University with a degree in economics and then worked for Nippon Doken, a Mie-based construction company owned by the Tamura family. In 1994 he became his uncle's secretary.

When this withdrew to the Shūgiin election in 1996 , Tamura took over the LDP candidacy in the single-mandate constituency Mie 4, which was newly created by the electoral reform, where he prevailed by a narrow margin against Akihiko Noro ( NFP ). He was then able to defend the constituency three times, in 2009 he was narrowly defeated by the Democrat Tetsuo Morimoto, but was re-elected via the Tōkai proportional representation block, in 2012 and 2014 he again clearly prevailed in the constituency.

For the cabinets of Jun'ichirō Koizumi Shimomura was Parliamentary State Secretary ( Daijinseimukan ) in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (2002) and in the Ministry of Culture and Science (2003). From 2003 he was chairman of the LDP prefectural association Mie. In the first cabinet of Shinzō Abe , he became State Secretary / "Vice Minister" ( Fukudaijin ) in Sōmushō in 2006 .

Tamura first became minister in 2012 in the second Abe cabinet , where he took over the ministry of social affairs and labor. During the cabinet reshuffle in September 2014, he was replaced by Yasuhisa Shiozaki .

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Kantei / Kabinett: Short biography (Japanese, English )