Shigefumi Matsuzawa

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Shigefumi Matsuzawa (2014)

Shigefumi Matsuzawa ( Japanese 松 沢 成文 , Matsuzawa Shigefumi ; born April 2, 1958 in Kawasaki ) is a Japanese politician (non-party → JRP → NFP → voice of the people → GGP → DPJ → non-party → Minna → Jisedai → non-party → Kibō → Ishin ) and MP in Sangiin , the upper house of the national parliament, for Kanagawa Prefecture in eastern Japan . Before that, he was governor of Kanagawa from 2003 to 2011, and from 1993 to 2003 a member of the Shūgiin , the national lower house. From May 2018 to May 2019 he was party chairman of the Kibō no Tō .

Life

Matsuzawa studied law at Keiō University and then graduated from the Matsushita Seikei Juku ( 松下 政 経 塾 , English Matsushita Institute of Government and Management ). In his senior year 1987, he was first elected as an independent to the Kanagawa Prefectural Parliament.

In the 1993 Shūgiin election , Matsuzawa was elected as a Shinseitō candidate for the second constituency of Kanagawa. He was then a member of the Shinshinto , the Kokumin no Koe and the Democratic Party . In 1996 and 2000 he was confirmed in office - after the electoral reform of 1994 now in the 9th constituency of Kanagawa. In 1999 he ran unsuccessfully against Naoto Kan for chairmanship of the Democratic Party, where he received mainly the support of younger MPs.

In February 2003, Matsuzawa left the party to run as an independent in the Kanagawa gubernatorial election in March. The April 14, 2003 election was hotly contested after incumbent Hiroshi Okazaki resigned . Matsuzawa ran without the official support of the Democratic Party. Most important of the six competitors were Ryōichi Takarada (with the support of LDP , Kōmeitō , Conservative Party ) and Ichirō Asukata. Matsuzawa won the election with 1.04 million votes (Takarada 676 thousand, Asukata 643 thousand).

Matsuzawa is one of the main proponents of a common administrative and legislative structure for the greater Tokyo area. Foreign policy attention was given in 2005 to his dispute with Foreign Minister Tarō Asō over the planned 2008 stationing of a nuclear-powered American aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington , in Yokosuka . In 2006 he gave in after he had been assured the creation of a disaster control plan together with the US Navy.

After Matsuzawa had initially declared his candidacy for the gubernatorial election in Tokyo in the 2011 election campaign , he withdrew his candidacy in March 2011 when incumbent Shintaro Ishihara declared his candidacy again . Matsuzawa also ruled out another candidacy in Kanagawa, and Yūji Kuroiwa was elected as his successor . In the early gubernatorial election in Tokyo in 2012 , which was made necessary by Ishihara's resignation , Matsuzawa actually ran and received 621,278 votes (less than 10%).

In the 2013 Sangiin election , Matsuzawa stood for Minna no Tō in Kanagawa, which has been elected four MPs per partial election since 2013. With 18.8% of the votes (740.207) behind Liberal Democrat Dai Shimamura (28.8%) and in front of two candidates from Kōmeitō and the Democratic Party, Matsuzawa moved into Sangiin.

In September 2017 he joined the Kibō no Tō (dt. "Party of Hope") , which had been founded shortly before in view of the 2017 general election, and was elected their parliamentary group chairman in the upper house in November of that year, with the corresponding parliamentary group consisting of only two other members. After the Kibō no Tō announced that it would merge with the Democratic Progressive Party to form the People's Democratic Party , this approach was criticized by Matsuzawa and a few other Kibō MPs, whereupon five of them (including Nariaki and Kyōko Nakayama ) joined in May 2018 decided to split off under the leadership of Matsuzawa and continue the name "Kibō no Tō". Since then, Matsuzawa has been chairman of this “new” Kibō no Tō, which was represented by a total of five members in the national parliament. In May 2019, however, he resigned together with General Secretary Kuniko Kōda because he was unable to convince the other party members of a merger with the Nippon Ishin no Kai . Shortly thereafter, he left the party and stood as a candidate for the Nippon Ishin no Kai in Kanagawa in the 2019 Sangiin election , where he won the fourth of four seats with 15.8% of the vote by a safe margin over the communist Yuka Asaka.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Japan Times, January 18, 1999: Kan retains DPJ helm; rival taps younger vote.
  2. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Candidates for the gubernatorial election in Kanagawa 2003 ( Memento of November 14, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.jun.or.jp/election/20030413-local.htm
  4. ↑ Japan Times, December 4, 2003: Few warm to greater-Tokyo assembly idea
  5. ↑ Japan Times, August 17, 2006: Kanagawa governor approves first US nuke-powered carrier in Japan
  6. ↑ 参 院 選 2013 / 選 挙 結果 / 選 挙 区 / 神奈川 . In: Yomiuri Shimbun . July 22, 2013. Retrieved August 28, 2013 (Japanese).
  7. ↑ 松 沢 氏 ら が 新 「希望 の 党」 設立 ５ 人 が 参加 . In: Nihon Keizai Shimbun . May 7, 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2018 (Japanese).
  8. ↑ 希望 ・ 松 沢 代表 が 辞 任 ＝ 後任 に 中山 中山 成 彬 氏 . In: Jiji Tsūshin . May 29, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019 (Japanese).
  9. ↑ 維新 、 松 沢 氏 ら ４ 人 擁 立 ＝ 参 院 選 . In: Jiji Tsūshin . June 11, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Matsuzawa, Shigefumi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 松 沢 成文 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Kawasaki , Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan