Norio Sugiyama

Norio Sugiyama ( Japanese 杉山 憲 夫 , Sugiyama Norio ; born March 3, 1930 in Shizuoka Prefecture ; † February 27, 2012 ) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and a long-time member of the House of Representatives , the lower house of the national parliament .

Life

Sugiyama attended the prefectural Susono high school and then took over the family business in the dairy industry. He was a member of the Shimizu City Council , then a Shizuoka Prefectural MP.

In the Shūgiin election in 1983 he was elected as a candidate of the LDP for the first time as a member of the lower house and belonged to this after five re-elections until 2003, initially for the constituency Shizuoka 2, after the electoral reform for the proportional representation block Tōkai. In the LDP he joined the ex- Takeshita faction under Shin Kanemaru . After this came under criticism because of the Sagawa-Kyūbin scandal, he supported the election of Ichirō Ozawa as faction chairman, who, however, was subject to Keizō Obuchi and founded his own faction with Tsutomu Hata . This left the LDP in 1993 and founded the Renewal Party ( Shinseitō ), which Sugiyama also joined. After its dissolution, he became a member of the New Progressive Party ( Shinshintō ) in 1994 , in which, in addition to chairman Toshiki Kaifu , Ozawa as general secretary and Hata as deputy chairman again took leadership positions.

In 1996 he returned to the LDP and joined the Miyazawa faction there. First he was chairman of the lower house committee on the environment for a short time in 1996, before he was chairman of the lower house committee on transport between 1996 and 1997. When it came to the so-called "Katō Rebellion" of Kōichi Katō against the party chairman-Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori in 2000 , Sugiyama voted against Katō's vote of no confidence in Mori.

In the Shūgiin election in 2003 , when he exceeded the newly introduced age limit of 73 under Jun'ichirō Koizumi for an LDP candidacy in a proportional representation bloc, he decided not to run again for a seat in the lower house and largely withdrew from politics.

Web links

• 杉山 憲 夫 氏 が 死去 元 衆院 議員 (February 28, 2012)
• 【杉山 憲 夫 氏 死去】 「政治 は 人 の た め」 貫 く 気 配 り の 人情 家 . In: Shizuoka Shimbun . February 28, 2012,Retrieved March 8, 2012(Japanese).