Sakihito Ozawa
Sakihito Ozawa ( Japanese 小 沢 鋭 仁 , Ozawa Sakihito ; born May 31, 1954 in Kōfu , Yamanashi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( New Japan Party → New Party Sakigake → Democratic Party → Nippon Ishin no Kai → Ishin no Tō → independent → Kaikaku kesshū no kai → Ōsaka Ishin no Kai → Nippon Ishin no Kai ), member of the Shūgiin , the lower house, and former environment minister .
Ozawa graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo in 1978, then studied at the institute of economists Yukio Noguchi and Eisuke Sakakibara and completed a graduate degree at the University of Saitama (today: Seisaku Kenkyū Daigakuin Daigaku ). From 1981 he worked for the Tōkyō Ginkō (English The Bank of Tokyo ). From 1983 he headed a political planning office of Takujirō Hamada , a Shūgiin member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
In 1992, Ozawa joined the New Japan Party of Morihiro Hosokawa , for which he was first elected as a member of the Shūgiin election in 1993 . After the failure of the anti-LDP coalition in 1994, he left the New Japan Party and joined the Minshu no Kaze ("Wind of Democracy") faction , then the New Sakigake Party . From 1996 he belonged to the Democratic Party .
In the Shūgiin, Ozawa headed the environmental committee in 2004. He won his constituency, the 1st constituency of Yamanashi, four times in a row from 2000 onwards. In the Democratic Party, he was, among other things, deputy general secretary and chairman of the mobilization committee ( kokumin-undō-kai ).
After the election victory of the Democrats in 2009, the party leader and Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama appointed him to his cabinet as environment minister . Ozawa was responsible for the implementation of Hatoyama's CO 2 reduction target of 25% by 2020. Hatoyama's successor Naoto Kan first took him over to his cabinet , then replaced him with Ryu Matsumoto when the cabinet was reshuffled in September 2010 .
In November 2012 Ozawa left the Democratic Party and joined the Nippon Ishin no Kai of Shintarō Ishihara and Tōru Hashimoto. For the new party, he lost the constituency Yamanashi 1 in the Shūgiin election in 2012 with around 20,000 votes behind to the liberal democrat Noriko Miyagawa; But since he was put alone in front of the other constituency candidates on the list number 1 of the Ishin no Kai in South Kantō, he was sure to be re-elected in the proportional representation bloc, where the party won five seats. When the Ishin no Kai split in 2014, he initially joined the Ishin no Tō. For this, too, he was preferred to be ranked number 1 in the 2014 election and was thus safely confirmed. When, in 2015, the Ishin no Tō split into supporters and opponents of rapprochement [again] with the Democratic Party, Ozawa instead left the party entirely and founded the Kaikaku kesshū no kai (approximate "reform / Reformist gathering ”- kesshū ( 結集 , for example“ coming together, concentration, gathering ”), and the versatile kai , ( 会 , literally“ meeting, gathering ”, but also“ group, association, association, society, etc. ”) overlap ; English Vision of Reform ). To merge the Ishin no Tō with the Democratic Party for Minshintō in the spring of 2016, the four other members joined this; but Ozawa joined the Osaka Ishin no Kai .
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ^ Yomiuri Shimbun , election results Shūgiin 2014: proportional representation, Kinki, Ishin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ozawa, Sakihito |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 小 沢 鋭 仁 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kofu |