Kazuo Shii

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Kazuo Shii ( Japanese 志 位 和 夫 , Shii Kazuo ; born July 29, 1954 in Yotsukaidō , Chiba Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Communist Party of Japan (CPJ) and a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament . He was general secretary of the CPY from 1990 to 2000 and has been party chairman since 2000.

Life

Kazuo Shii was born on July 29, 1954 as the son of the elementary school teacher and regional CPJ politician Shii Akiyoshi ( 志 位 明 義 ; 1929-2005) in Yotsukaidō and sat for the CPJ in the city council of Funabashi . He joined the CPY in 1973 while studying nanosciences at the engineering faculty of the University of Tokyo as an opponent of a planned reform of the electoral law of the then Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei (the reform was finally only able to prevail in 1994) and was, among other things, tutor of the eldest son of the then CPY. Chairman Miyamoto Kenji (1908-2007). After graduating in 1979, Shii worked for the CPJ in Tokyo Prefecture from 1980 , for the Central Committee (ZK) from 1982 and organized several student movements at Waseda University . He was particularly noticeable because of his efforts to renew and modernize the CPY and was therefore appointed as an "extraordinary member" ( 准 中央委員 jun-) at the 18th party congress in 1987 on a proposal from Miyamoto Kenji, who was at that time the Central Committee Chairman . chūō-iin ) elected to the Central Committee; In 1988 he was head of the Central Committee's secretariat. In 1989 he was promoted to a (full) member of the Central Committee by a resolution of the General Assembly of the Central Committee and in 1990 at the 19th party congress at the age of 35 to General Secretary of the CPJ (officially General Secretary of the Central Committee, 中央 委員会 書記 局長 chūō-iinkai shoki -kyokuchō ) appointed; he gained considerable media attention as a result.

In the 1993 general election, Shii was elected to parliament for the first time in the first constituency of Chiba (five seats) with just under the fifth highest percentage of votes. Since 1996 he has been re-elected eight times through the South Kantō proportional representation .

Shii giving a campaign speech for the 2017 general election in front of Shimbashi Station . Although the election result for the CPJ was significantly worse than in the previous election, it was his second-best for Shii in his time as party chairman.

At the 22nd party congress of the CPJ in November 2000 Shii Tetsuzō Fuwa replaced as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee ( 中央 委員会 幹部 会 委員長 , chūō-iinkai kambukai-iinchō ). Under his leadership, the CPJ was initially unable to build on the election successes of the late 1990s in lower and upper house elections; from 2007 to 2013 it had no direct mandates in either chamber of the national parliament. Since then, the party has performed relatively successfully in national elections and is always represented with over 10 MPs in both chambers (see also the section “Election results in national parliamentary elections” in the CPY article ). Shii achieved his greatest electoral success at national level in the 2014 general election , when the CPY won 21 seats with over 13 million votes. He also described the election result of the 2017 Tokyo prefectural parliamentary election , in which the Liberal Democratic Party had lost its absolute majority in the Tokyo prefectural parliament and the CPJ emerged as the fourth strongest party with around 14% of the vote, as "extremely gratifying".

In response to the 2015 law on " collective self-defense " passed by Prime Minister Shinzō Abe , which extends the scope of the Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) under certain circumstances, Shii founded the bipartisan organization Minkyōkyōtō ( 民 共 共 闘 , in cooperation with the Democratic Party (DPJ)) such as "Democratic-Communist Joint Struggle"), the aim of which is to strengthen cooperation between the opposition parties and to prevent further strengthening of the JSDF. After the merger of the DPJ with the Ishin no Tō to form the Democratic Progressive Party (DFP) in spring 2016 and its subsequent partial disintegration in autumn 2017, the Minkyōkyōtō currently belong to the CPJ, the Constitutional Democratic Party , the DFP, the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party on.

family

Kazuo Shii is married and has one daughter. His father Akiyoshi was a member of the CPY from 1948 until his death in 2005, and from 1975 sat for two terms on the city council of Funabashi. His grandfather Masato ( 志 位 正人 Shii Masato ; 1889-1945) was a member of the Imperial Japanese Army and most recently department head for war weapons in the Burma Regional Army . He fell on May 6, 1945 and was posthumously appointed lieutenant general. His uncle Masatsugu ( 志 位 正 二 Shii Masatsugu ; 1920–1973) was also in the army and there major in the 3rd regional army . After the war he was first a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union and later an official in the Japanese Foreign Ministry , but at the same time a spy for the Soviet KGB .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 第 40 回 衆議院 議員 選 挙 千葉 1 区 (1993/07/18) 投票 千葉 1 区 の 選 挙 情報 . In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . Archived from the original on January 25, 2013 ; Retrieved July 29, 2016 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ 日本 共産党 創立 ９５ 周年 記念 講演 会 - 志 位 委員長 の 講演 . In: Shimbun Akahata . July 22, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2018 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 故 ・ 志 位 明 義 さ ん の 略 歴 . In: maru.on.coocan.jp. May 4, 2005. Retrieved March 27, 2018 (Japanese).

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personal data
SURNAME Shii, Kazuo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 志 位 和 夫 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Yotsukaidō , Chiba Prefecture , Japan