Satsuki Eda

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Satsuki Eda ( Japanese 江 田 五月 , Eda Satsuki ; born May 22, 1941 in Nagaoka, Saiden , Jōtō-gun (today: Nagaoka, Naka-ku , Okayama ), Okayama Prefecture ) is a former Japanese politician ( Shakai shimin rengō ( "Socialist Civic League ") → Shakaiminshu rengō ("Social Democratic League") → Nihon Shintō ("New Japan Party") → Shinshintō ("New Progressive Party") → non-party → Minshutō (" Democratic Party ") → Minshintō ("Democratic Progressive Party ") )). From 1977 to 2016 he was a member of the national parliament with only two interruptions, most recently from 1998 for his home prefecture Okayama in the upper house , of which he was president from 2007 to 2010. In the anti-LDP coalition cabinet Hosokawa 1993-1994 and again in the cabinet Kan 2011 Eda was a minister.

Life

Eda, the son of the MP Saburō Eda , studied at the law faculty of the University of Tokyo and was then assistant judge ( hanjiho ) at the district courts of Tokyo, Chiba and Yokohama. In 1977 he took over the chairmanship of the Shakai Shimin Rengo ("Socialist Citizens League"), which his father had founded after he left the Socialist Party of Japan (SPJ). As a candidate for the “Bürgerbund”, he was elected to the upper house for the first time in the 1977 election in the state-wide constituency. In 1983 Eda was elected to the lower house for the five- seat constituency Okayama 1 , of which he was a member until 1996. 1985 Eda took over the party chairmanship of Shakai Minshu Rengo ("Social Democratic League"), which had emerged in 1978 from the merger of his party with the Shakai Club ("Socialist Club") by Hideo Den (formerly SPJ). 1993-1994 was Eda Minister of State for Science and Technology in the cabinet of Morihiro Hosokawa . In 1996 he ran for governorship in Okayama Prefecture with the support of the New Progressive Party , but was narrowly defeated by Masahiro Ishii .

Eda was re-elected to the House of Lords in 1998 as the Democratic Party candidate for Okayama Prefecture, re-elected in 2004 and 2010 . After his party won a majority of the seats in the upper house elections in 2007 , he was elected President of the upper house on August 7th. Eda was not only the first member of his party to hold this post, but also the first President of the House of Lords since 1956 who did not belong to the Liberal Democratic Party .

In 2011 Prime Minister Naoto Kan appointed Eda to his reshaped cabinet as Minister of Justice , and in June he also took over the Ministry of the Environment . He held both posts until the appointment of the Noda cabinet on September 2, 2011.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 湯 浅 文 伍 郎 : 五月 さ ん の 生 い た ち （1） 幼年期 . In: 五月 会 だ よ り . No. June 12 , 1982 ( eda-jp.com ).
personal data
SURNAME Eda, Satsuki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 江 田 五月 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagaoka, Saiden, Jōtō-gun (today: Nagaoka, Naka-ku, Okayama), Okayama Prefecture