Shōzō Kusakawa
Shōzō Kusakawa ( Japanese 草 川 昭 三 , Kusakawa Shōzō ; born August 16, 1928 in Nagoya , Aichi Prefecture ; † July 17, 2019 ) was a Japanese politician of the Kōmeitō and a member of both chambers of parliament.
Kusakawa graduated from the “Nagoya Municipal Arts and Crafts School” ( Nagoya-shiritsu kōgei kōtō-gakkō ) in 1945 and then worked for 17 years as a welder for Nagoya Zōsen (today: IHI ), where he was involved in the union. In the Shūgiin election in 1967 , he first tried to switch to politics when he ran for the SPJ in the 6th constituency of Aichi, but missed third place by around 3,500 votes. He was only successful in the "Lockheed election" in 1976 , when he ran as an independent with the support of the Kōmeitō in the four-mandate 2nd constituency of Aichi and moved into the Shūgiin with the highest percentage of votes for the first of a total of eight legislative periods . There he belonged as a non-party member of the Kōmeitō faction to various committees, in elections he continued to run as an independent.
In 1994 Kusukawa took part in the founding of the New Progressive Party , as its candidate he was re-elected in 1996 in the new constituency Aichi 6 . After the dissolution of the party, he became a member of the "new" Kōmeitō, for which he was involved as chairman of the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs in 1999 in the formation of the coalition with the ruling LDP . In the 2000 election he lost his constituency to Yūkichi Maeda from the opposition Democratic Party .
In 2001 Kusakawa returned to parliament when he was elected to the Sangiin with around 700,000 preferential votes nationwide on the Kōmeitō proportional representation list. He was deputy party chairman and chairman of the Sangiin faction of the Kōmeitō, at times he sat on the committee for administrative supervision and control of the Sangiin. In the Sangiin election in 2007 , he landed with less than 40,000 votes, only eighth on the Kōmeitō list - the party had seven seats. In 2008 he returned to Sangiin as a replacement for the resigned Kiyohiko Tōyama .
In the 2013 Sangiin election , he no longer ran. He was then "adviser" ( komon ) in the national committee of the Kōmeitō.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Sangiin: Member Profile ( Japanese , English )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 草 川昭 三元 公 明 党 国 対 委員長 が 死去 accessed on July 23, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kusakawa, Shozo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 草 川昭 三 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nagoya , Aichi Prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th July 2019 |