Shun'ichi Yamaguchi

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Shun'ichi Yamaguchi ( Japanese 山口 俊 一 , Yamaguchi Shun'ichi ; born February 28, 1950 in Ikeda-chō , Miyoshi-gun (today: Miyoshi-shi ), Tokushima-ken ) is a Japanese politician who was a member of the eighth legislature Lower House of the National Parliament , where he now represents the 2nd constituency of Tokushima , and Minister in the second Abe cabinet . Today he belongs to the Asō faction of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

Yamaguchi graduated from the Faculty of Literature at Aoyama Gakuin University in 1974 , and then dropped out of a study abroad at the University of Paris-Sorbonne . In the 1975 elections , at just 25 years of age, he was elected to the Tokushima prefectural parliament for the first of four consecutive terms. In 1990 he resigned for a change in national politics.

In the 1990 general election , he stood in the then five-seat prefecture-wide Tokushima constituency as an LDP candidate and achieved the third highest percentage of votes. In 1993 he was re-elected to second place. Since the introduction of the single-mandate constituencies and the proportional representation blocks, Yamaguchi has been running in the constituency of Tokushima 2 (its composition changed in 2002 and 2013), which includes Miyoshi County and the (independent) city of Miyoshi, which was founded in 2006, before and after the new cuts. He won the constituency three times in a row for the LDP. In 1996 he was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Post while in the Hashimoto Cabinet . In the LDP he was among other things one of the vice chairmen of the PARC in 1996 and 2000 . In 2001 he took over the chairmanship of committees of the lower house, first until 2002 in the new finance committee (zaimu kin'yū iinkai) , then until 2003 in the committee for accounting and administrative supervision (kessan gyōsei kanshi iinkai) . From 2003 to 2004 he was Vice Minister for General Affairs .

In the "post-parliament" of 2005, Yamaguchi was one of the opponents of the post-privatization law of the cabinet of Jun'ichirō Koizumi and had to run in the 2005 general election without a party. The LDP put Akira Shichijō as an "assassin", but Yamaguchi defended his seat against the Democrat Miho Takai , Shichijō and a communist. He submitted to the party line for post-privatization and soon returned to the LDP. In 2008 he became an advisor to Prime Minister Tarō Asō for “regional revitalization ” (chihō saisei) , the promotion of demographically and economically fallen back regions. In the LDP landslide defeat in 2009 he lost Tokushima 2 to Miho Takai, but was able to win one of the two LDP seats in the proportional representation in Shikoku with a comparatively narrow constituency defeat. In 2012 he prevailed again in the 2nd constituency of Tokushima.

After the LDP took over government again in 2012, Yamaguchi was Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Finance until 2013 . In September 2014 Shinzō Abe appointed him as Minister for Special Tasks at the Cabinet Office for Okinawa and the "Northern Territories", science and technology policy and space travel in his cabinet; In addition, he was given responsibility for IT policy, the government program sai-challenge , with which the chances of a new start for business start-ups, (re) entrants, etc. should be improved after a traditionally stigmatized "failure", and the Cool Japan Strategy for the international marketing of Japanese culture. Yamaguchi, like Premier Abe and other cabinet and LDP party members, is close to Nippon Kaigi , who is considered revisionist .

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  1. ↑ http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2994558
personal data
SURNAME Shun'ichi Yamaguchi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 山口 俊 一 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Ikeda (Tokushima)