Hiroyuki Sonoda

Hiroyuki Sonoda ( Japanese 園田 博 之 , Sonoda Hiroyuki ; born February 19, 1942 in Kawaura , Amakusa County (today: Amakusa ), Kumamoto Prefecture ; † November 11, 2018 ) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and a member of the Japanese House of Commons for the Kyūshū electoral block .

Sonoda, a graduate of Nihon Daigaku , worked for the fishing company Nichiro Gyogyō KK (today part of KK Maruha Nichiro Holdings ) after completing his studies . After the death of his father, the MP and former Foreign and Social Minister Sunao Sonoda , he ran in the 1986 election in his constituency. He won the five-mandate 2nd constituency Kumamoto as an independent (with the support of the Fukuda faction ) with 73,252,258 votes in first place - the " fractional votes " resulted from the fact that his father's wife, Tenkōkō Sonoda , was one of the first women in 1946 had been in parliament, ran in 1986 in the same constituency.

Sonoda initially joined the LDP. In 1993 he left the party in the run-up to the general election and took part in the founding of Masayoshi Takemura's new Sakigake party . There he was general secretary ( daihyō kanji ) from 1993 to 1994 and 1996 , after the departure of Naoto Kan and Yukio Hatoyama in 1996 for a short time general secretary (now kanjichō ). Between 1994 and 1996 he was Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary in Tomiichi Murayama's cabinets .

Since the 1996 election , Sonoda has been running in the single constituency of Kumamoto 4, which he won seven times in a row after it was established. After the dissolution (renaming) of the New Party Sakigake in 1998, he returned to the LDP in 1999 and joined the Katō / Ozata / Tanigaki faction . Under the party chairman Sadakazu Tanigaki Sonoda was deputy general secretary ( kanjichō-dairi ) from 2009 to March 2010, when he resigned, which he justified with differences of opinion in the party leadership. In April 2010 Sonoda left the LDP and took part in the founding of Tachiagare Nippon , where he held the most important position as general secretary behind chairmen Hiranuma and Yosano. In 2012 the party went into the Nippon Ishin no Kai of the former governor of Osaka Tōru Hashimoto . For this Sonoda was able to win one of only two direct mandates outside of Osaka prefecture in the 2012 general election. The major parties had not nominated any opposing candidates, only the now non-party former MP Masayoshi Yagami and a communist competed against Sonoda. In the summer of 2014 Sonoda founded the "next generation party" with other MPs around Shintarō Ishihara and Hiranuma . In 2015 he returned to the LDP, as did Hiranuma.

In the 2017 general election, Kumamoto lost a lower election seat, the LDP candidacy in Kumamoto 4 took over Yasushi Kaneko (previously constituency 5) and Sonoda switched to the proportional representation block, where the LDP put him in first place in front of the double candidates and he was sure to be re-elected.

From the end of 2017 he was repeatedly in the hospital, on November 11, 2018 Sonoda died of pneumonia in a Tokyo hospital.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JANJAN, The Senkyo: Constituency result Kumamoto 2 1986 ( Memento from March 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Hatoyama's brother quits 'ousted' LDP. Hoped-for allies mum; 'socialistic' DPJ's boss gives the cold shoulder. In: The Japan Times . March 16, 2010, accessed March 16, 2010 . 
3. ↑ 自 民 、 平沼 ・ 園田 両 氏 の 復 党 を 了 承 次世代 は 存亡 の 危機 . In: Asahi Shimbun Digital. October 2, 2015, archived from the original on October 5, 2015 ; Retrieved March 11, 2016 (Japanese). 
4. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : 2017 House of Representatives, results, proportional representation Kyūshū ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2017 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. 
5. ↑ 衆院 議員 の 園田 博 之 さ ん が 死去 村 山 内閣 で 官 房 副 長官 . In: Asahi Shimbun Digital. November 11, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2018 (Japanese). 
6. ^ Former Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Sonoda dies of pneumonia at 76. In: The Japan Times / Jiji Tsūshin . November 11, 2018, accessed November 11, 2018 .