Shinji Tarutoko

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Shinji Tarutoko

Shinji Tarutoko ( Japanese 樽 床 伸 二 , Tarutoko Shinji ; born August 6, 1959 in Shimane Prefecture ) is an independent Japanese politician and former member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament . 2012 served as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communication for several months .

Tarutoko, a graduate of Osaka University and the Matsushita Seikei Juku ( Matsushita Institute of Government and Management ), first ran as an independent candidate in the 1990 election for Shūgiin, but received only around 35 thousand in the 7th constituency of Osaka (3 seats) Be right. In the Shūgiin election in 1993 he landed as a candidate for the New Japan Party in third place and was thus elected for the first time. Since the electoral reform of 1994, he has run in the 12th constituency of Osaka , which he won four times. Only in 2005 he was defeated by Tomokatsu Kitagawa ( LDP ) and, with a poor constituency result, also missed re-election in the Kinki proportional representation.

After the failure of the anti-LDP coalition in 1994 Tarutoko initially belonged to the New Frontier Party , then the From Five of Morihiro Hosokawa and finally to the Democratic Party , where he was the mobilization committee and deputy secretary-general, among others Chairman. Within the party, he belonged to the Noda group . In 2001 he was a member of the " Next Cabinet " of party chairman Yukio Hatoyama as shadow minister for the MLIT . In the Shūgiin he was a member of the Committee on Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology.

In 2009, the Democratic Party won the Shūgiin election with a landslide, and Tarutoko returned to parliament. He then became chairman of the Shūgiin's environmental committee. In 2010 he ran in the election of the party chairman against Naoto Kan to succeed the resigned Yukio Hatoyama. He was supported by parts of the Ozawa group of the outgoing General Secretary Ichirō Ozawa , but was defeated in the vote among the DPJ MPs of both chambers.

In the third reshuffle of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's cabinet , he became Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications on October 1, 2012 .

In the Shūgiin election 2012 , Tarutoko was in the Osaka constituency 12 with 25.5% of the vote only third behind Tomokatsu Kitagawa (LDP) and Ryōma Ishii ( Minna no Tō ); on the DPJ proportional representation list in Kinki (which consisted only of constituency candidates, all on list position 1) he was 11th and thus clearly missed re-election in the proportional representation block. In 2014 he was again defeated by Kitagawa with 25.2% of the vote (40.0%).

In 2016, when the Democratic Party was absorbed into the Democratic Progressive Party , he left the party.

Tarutoko had originally planned for the next election to Shūgiin a constituency candidacy as an independent. For the 2017 Shūgiin election , however, he joined the Kibō no Tō , the “Party of Hope”, to Tokyo’s governor Yuriko Koike . Tarutoko only ran for the proportional representation in Kinki and was safely elected, just ahead of the double candidates on the list, although the party only won around eleven percent of the vote and three seats there. In the merger of most of the Kibō no Tō with the Democratic Progressive Party, he did not participate and became non-party. In January 2019, he resigned as a member of parliament in order to run again for the majority seat of Osaka 12 in the by-election in April 2019, which was made necessary by Kitagawa's death.

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Individual evidence

  1. JANJAN, The Senkyo: Shūgiin-Wahl 1990, constituency result Osaka 7 ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.senkyo.janjan.jp
  2. Mariko Sanchanta: Kan Favorite in Japan Premier Race. In: The Wall Street Journal . June 3, 2010, accessed June 3, 2010 .
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  4. Yomiuri Shimbun : Election results Shūgiin 2014, single-mandate walking tour, Osaka 12 ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.yomiuri.co.jp
  5. 樽 床 氏 が 民進党 離 党 「民主党 は 政 権 運 営 に 失敗 し 信 頼 を 失 っ た。 無 所属 所属 と し て 再 再 ス タ ー ト」 民主 政 権 下 で 総 務 相 . In: Sankei West. April 30, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017 (Japanese).
  6. Yomiuri Shimbun : election results Shūgiin 2017, proportional representation Kinki / Kibō
  7. 樽 床 衆院 議員 が 辞職 し て 補選 出馬 へ 維新 も 新人 擁 立 . In: nikkei.com . January 21, 2019, Retrieved March 6, 2019 (Japanese).