Yoshitaka Shindo

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Yoshitaka Shindo, 2012

Yoshitaka Shindō ( Japanese 新 藤 義 孝 , Shindō Yoshitaka ; born January 20, 1958 in Kawaguchi , Saitama Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( Nukaga faction ), a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , and a former minister.

Shindo, a graduate of Meiji University and previously the associated high school, initially worked in the city administration of Kawaguchi. In the unified regional elections in April 1991 , he was elected to the Kawaguchi City Council. In the 1996 Shūgiin election , he tried to switch to national politics: Although he was defeated in the 2nd Saitama constituency by almost 400 votes to Katsuyuki Ishida ( NFP ), he won a proportional representation in the North Kantō block. He won the constituency in the 2000, 2005 and 2012 elections. In 2003 he was clearly defeated by Ishida and resigned from parliament, in 2009 he again won a proportional representation.

Under the Koizumi cabinet, Shindo was parliamentary state secretary in the interior and foreign ministries . From 2007 to 2008 he was "Vice Minister" in the Ministry of Economic Affairs under the Abe and Fukuda cabinets . In 2011 he took over the chairmanship of the Shūgiin Committee for Accounting and Administrative Oversight ( kessan gyōsei-kanshi ). In the LDP he is chairman of the Saitama Prefectural Association.

In July 2011, Shindo was one of a group of originally four, ultimately three ( Katsuei Hirasawa canceled the trip at short notice) LDP national MPs who wanted to travel to Ulleungdo in the Republic of Korea to demonstrate their view that the nearby Liancourt- Rocks from the republic are "illegally occupied" Japanese territory. The MPs were refused entry in Seoul. The other two fellow travelers were Masahisa Satō (Nukaga faction) and Tomomi Inada ( Machimura faction ).

In the second Abe cabinet , Shindō became Minister for General Affairs (Minister of the Interior) in 2012 , and in 2013 he also took over the new ministerial post at the Cabinet Office for the “national strategic special zones” (kokka senryaku tokubetsu kuiki) , which was part of the economic recovery of the Abe government ( Abenomics ) were newly created. Shindo remained minister until the cabinet reshuffle in September 2014 , while Sanae Takaichi took over responsibility for the Shigeru Ishiba Special Economic Zones under the Ministry of General Affairs .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ LDP Saitama: Board of Directors
  2. ^ Seoul entry ban on Diet members sparks anger. In: The Japan Times . July 30, 2011, accessed August 1, 2011 .
  3. ↑ 3 Japanese lawmakers sent home. In: The Korea Times . August 1, 2011, accessed August 1, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Japanese politicians are not allowed to enter. In: Handelsblatt . July 30, 2011, accessed October 1, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Shindo, Yoshitaka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 新 藤 義 孝 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th January 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Kawaguchi , Saitama Prefecture