Takashi Sasagawa

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Takashi Sasagawa ( Japanese 笹 川 堯 , Sasagawa Takashi ; born October 5, 1935 in Bunkyō , Tokyo Prefecture , registered in Kiryū , Gunma Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician, former member of the Shūgiin , the lower house, and from 2008 to 2009 chairman of the executive council ( sōmukai ) of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Within the party, he belonged to the Tsushima faction .

Life

Sasagawa is the second son of Ryōichi Sasakawa , a nationalist and anti-communist activist, released suspected class A war criminal and business tycoon, who built an empire for betting on motorboat races in the post-war period and was involved in numerous humanitarian organizations. Takashi Sasagawa already worked in 1954 for the Zenkoku Mōtābōto Kyōsōkai , which organizes the motorboat races . In 1956 he broke off his law studies at Meiji University and worked on the Kiryū-Kyōteijō racecourse in Midori .

Sasagawa made his first foray into politics in the 1972 Shūgiin election , when he ran in vain for a seat in the Gunma constituency 2 (three seats). The second attempt, now as a candidate for the LDP in the Shūgiin election in 1983 , was unsuccessful. It was not until 1986 that he entered parliament for the first time and has since been re-elected six times (since 1996 in the single constituency Gunma 2).

In 1991, Sasagawa was Parliamentary State Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Post. In the "boom of new parties" in the early 1990s, he left the LDP in 1993 and joined the Shinshinto in 1994 , which he turned his back on after two years. In 1997 he returned to the LDP, where he joined the Hashimoto faction . Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori appointed Sasagawa in 2000 as Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy - initially without a portfolio until the central government was restructured in January 2001 - in his second cabinet . In April 2001 Mori's successor Jun'ichirō Koizumi replaced him with Kōji Omi .

Afterwards Sasagawa was among other things in 2003 chairman of the budget committee in the Shūgiin. The prime minister and party chairman Yasuo Fukuda appointed him chairman of the executive council of the LDP, one of the party's three key posts alongside the general secretary and chairman of the political research council, when the cabinet and party leadership were reshuffled in August 2008. Fukuda's successor Tarō Asō took him over in this role.

In the Shūgiin election in 2009 , Sasagawa lost his constituency to Takashi Ishizeki ( DPJ ). Ryōtarō Tanose was successor as chairman of the LDP Executive Council . He then initially announced his withdrawal from politics.

In the gubernatorial election in Tokyo in 2012 , Sasagawa ran as an independent to succeed the resigned Shintaro Ishihara . He received around 2.8% of the valid votes.

family

Sasagawa's younger brother Yōhei Sasakawa is chairman of Nippon Zaidan , a charitable foundation, and WHO Goodwill Ambassador .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ LDP heavyweight Sasagawa to retire from politics. In: The Japan Times . September 7, 2009, accessed November 13, 2012 .
  2. ↑ 笹 川 元 科技 担当 相 が 出馬 表明 ＝ 五 輪 招致 、 防災 に 意欲 - 都 知事 選 . In: The Wall Street Journal . November 13, 2012, Retrieved November 13, 2012 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Sasagawa, Takashi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 笹 川 堯 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bunkyō , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan