Tsuneo Suzuki

Tsuneo Suzuki, 2008

Tsuneo Suzuki ( Japanese 鈴木 恒 夫 , Suzuki Tsuneo ; born February 10, 1941 in Yokohama ) is a former Japanese politician. For the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) he was from 1986 to 2009 intermittently a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house, and 2008 Minister of Education, Sports, Science and Technology . Within the LDP, he belonged to the Asō faction .

Life

After graduating from Waseda University in 1963, Suzuki worked for 15 years in the politics department of the Mainichi Shimbun . In 1977 he became secretary of the Shūgiin MP and chairman of the New Liberal Club Yōhei Kōno . 1983 Suzuki ran in the 1st constituency of Kanagawa for the first time for the Shūgiin, but was not elected. He then became secretary to Interior Minister Tagawa Seiichi ; after his recall, Suzuki returned in 1984 to his old position at Kōno.

In the 1986 Shūgiin election , Suzuki ran again and was elected this time. After the dissolution of the New Liberal Club after the election, he joined the LDP. In 1990, Suzuki was re-elected as Parliamentary State Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Education in 1992 . In 1993 he lost his seat in parliament and from then on worked in the secretariat of party chairman Yōhei Kōno.

As a result of the electoral reform of 1994, Suzuki joined the Shūgiin election in 1996 in the single constituency Kanagawa 7, which includes the districts of Tsuzuki and Kōhoku , his home district, and won with 75,599 of the approximately 223,000 votes. There he has been re-elected twice since then - in 2003 he narrowly lost with 93 to 96 thousand votes against Nobuhiko Sutō ( Democratic Party ) and only got into parliament through the proportional electoral block of South Kantō.

After his return to the Shūgiin, Suzuki became Parliamentary State Secretary in the Environment Agency in 1996 ; there he played a key role in the introduction of an environmental education program. In 1999 he joined the Kono group , in October of the same year he became chairman of the committee for education and culture, and in 2000 he was again parliamentary state secretary for a few months. He then received more important functions in the LDP and was, among other things, deputy chairman of the PARC ( Policy Affairs Research Council ) and the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs ( kokkai taisaku iinkai ). In the 2006 election for party chairmanship to succeed Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi , he led the campaign for Tarō Asō. Then he participated in December in the establishment of the Asō faction.

In the cabinet reshuffle in August 2008 , Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda Suzuki appointed as the successor to Kisaburō Tokai as Minister of Education. In September 2008 he replaced Tarō Asō by Ryū Shionoya .

For the Shūgiin election in 2009 , Suzuki announced his withdrawal from politics. His designated successor Keisuke Suzuki (Asō faction) lost his constituency to the Democratic Party .

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun: Profile of Fukuda's Reshuffled Cabinet  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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