Seishirō Etō

Seishirō Etō, 2001

Seishirō Etō ( Japanese 衛 藤 征 士 郎 , Etō Seishirō ; born April 29, 1941 in Kusu , Kusu District , Ōita Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the National Parliament , for the 2nd constituency Ōita. From 2009 to 2012 he was Shūgiin Vice President, from 1995 to 1996 he was his country’s defense minister. Within the party, he belongs to the Hosoda faction .

Life

Etō came from a farming family in Kujū . In 1966 he completed his studies at Waseda University . At the age of 29, he was elected mayor of Kusu in 1971 and was the youngest mayor in the country at the time. After a four-year term he returned to Waseda for graduate studies, after which he became secretary of a Shūgiin MP.

From 1977 to 1983 Etō belonged to the Sangiin , the upper house, for one legislative period . In the 1983 Shūgiin election , he was elected to the Shūgiin for the first time in the constituency Ōita 1 (four seats) with the fourth highest percentage of votes and has been confirmed nine times since then - from 1996 in the single constituency Ōita 2.

In 1986 he was Parliamentary State Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Agriculture , and in 1990 he was Chairman of the Finance Committee. In the Murayama cabinet , Etō was a minister as head of the defense authority from 1995 to 1996. He then became, among other things, State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from 2008 was chairman of the budget committee in the Shūgiin. In September 2009 he was elected Vice President of the Shūgiin after the LDP defeat in the Shūgiin election in 2009 . He remained in office until the Chamber was dissolved in November 2012.

In the LDP he first joined the Ōhira faction and in 1998 was one of the co-founders of the Kōno group . After a dispute over a visit to Japan, Lee Teng-huis and the faction chairman and then Foreign Minister Yōhei Kōno , he left the faction in 2001 and joined the Mori faction, today's Machimura faction. In the election of the LDP chairman in 2008, he supported the faction's own candidate Yuriko Koike against Tarō Asō .

Etō is, among other things, chairman of the "Parliamentary Association for a One-Chamber System" founded in 2009, which wants to work out reform plans for the abolition of Sangiin , which was then controlled by the opposition . It also includes the former premiers from his faction Mori and Koizumi .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ザ ・ 選 挙: Constituency result Ōita 1 1983 ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2008 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. 
2. ^ Cabinet divided on Lee's visa. Officials try to show united front, avoid upsetting China. In: The Japan Times . April 15, 2001, accessed February 13, 2009 . 
3. ↑ List of management functions in parliamentary groups

Web links

• Official website (Japanese, English)