Ozawa Saeki

Ozawa Saeki ( Jap. 小沢佐重喜 * 25. November 1898 in the district of Isawa the Iwate Prefecture (now Oshu ); † 8. May 1968 in Minato , Tokyo Prefecture ) was a Japanese politician, Member of the Shugiin , the lower house of the Japanese Parliament , and ministers.

Ozawa graduated from Nihon University's Law Faculty and subsequently became a lawyer in Tokyo's Shitaya District . He was introduced to politics by Miki Bukichi ( Kenseikai / Minseitō ) and was a member of the Tokyo City Council and the Tokyo Prefecture Parliament. After the end of the Pacific War, he entered the Shūgiin election in 1946 in the eight-mandate constituency of Iwate Prefecture for the Liberal Party of Japan and entered the lower house with the sixth highest share of the vote for the first of ten consecutive legislative periods - from 1947 for the four-mandate constituency of Iwate 2, which included the south of the prefecture.

In 1948 Ozawa was appointed transport minister to the second cabinet of Yoshida Shigeru , in the Yoshida III cabinet he took over the communications ministry , which was divided under him into the postal ministry and the telecommunications ministry. Even when the founding chairman of the Liberals Hatoyama Ichirō returned to politics and turned away from Yoshida, Ozawa stayed with the Yoshida Liberals and was appointed Minister of Construction in Yoshida's fifth cabinet in 1953 .

After the establishment of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) he joined the Satō faction of Satō Eisaku . He expressly supported - like his son later - the so-called "Hatomander" (suitcase word from Hatoyama and Gerrymander ), the introduction of single-mandate constituencies for the Shūgiin planned by Hatoyama, which would have made it easier for the LDP to gain a two-thirds majority. In 1960 he chaired the Shūgiin special committee for the new edition of the US-Japanese security treaty. In the same year he was appointed by the new party chairman Ikeda Hayato first as chairman of the committee for parliamentary affairs in the party leadership, then after the elections in November in his second cabinet as head of the authorities for administrative supervision and the development of Hokkaidōs.

In 1968, Ozawa died of heart failure at Jikei Hospital. His constituency candidacy was taken over by his eldest son Ichirō , who won the constituency Iwate 2 in 1969 with the highest percentage of votes.

Web links

• 小 沢 佐 重 喜 . In:日本人 名 大 辞典 デ ジ タ ル 版 . Kōdansha,Asahi Shimbun,accessed August 12, 2011(Japanese). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Senkyo: Shūgiin constituency result Iwate 1946 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Ozawa is the family name, Saeki the first name.