Tadahiro Matsushita

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Tadahiro Matsushita ( Japanese 松下 忠 洋 , Matsushita Tadahiro ; born February 9, 1939 in Sendai (now: Satsumasendai ), Kagoshima Prefecture ; † September 10, 2012 in Kōtō / Tokyo , Tokyo Prefecture ) was a Japanese politician of the New People's Party (NVP) , Member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the Japanese Parliament , for the 3rd constituency of Kagoshima and Minister in the Noda Cabinet . He was found dead on September 10, 2012 in his apartment in the Shinonome neighborhood.

Life

Matsushita graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at Kyoto University in 1962 and then became a civil servant in the Ministry of Construction . From 1970 he was temporarily posted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , through which he worked, among other things, in 1973 in the Indonesian Ministry of Public Works . In 1992 he ended his civil service career and turned to politics.

In the 1993 Shūgiin election , he ran for the Liberal Democratic Party in the three-mandate constituency of Kagoshima 2, which also included his hometown Sendai, ousted one of the two previous LDP MPs, Shin'ichirō Hirata , to fourth place and won the second highest share of the vote Shūgiin elected. In the LDP, he joined the Obuchi faction . After the electoral reform, the new constituency Kagoshima 3 took over, which he won sovereignly against Hirata (now the New Progressive Party ) in 1996, but then had to give it up to Kazuaki Miyaji ( Mitsuzuka faction ), so that in the 2000 and 2003 elections he only went through the LDP -Ratio voting list Kyūshū was elected. In 1998, during the Obuchi cabinet , he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture . In 2001, under the first Koizumi cabinet, he was given the newly created post of "Vice Minister" in the cabinet office (until 2002).

In 2005 Matsushita belonged to the "rebels", the opponents of the post-privatization forced by the party chairman-Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi , entered the resulting new elections as an independent in his constituency and was defeated by Miyaji with around 92 to 69 thousand votes. He then initially announced his retirement from politics, but also returned to politics at the insistence of the Democratic Party , which is weakly positioned in rural Kagoshima: He entered the Shūgiin election in 2009 as an NVP candidate (with a democratic election recommendation) his constituency and won by around 29,000 votes ahead of Miyaji. He then became "Vice Minister" in the Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry in the new coalition government made up of Democrats and NVP . In 2012 he moved to the Cabinet Office and was also one of the three newly established "Vice Ministers" for the reconstruction after the Great East Japanese Earthquake of 2011. In June 2012, he succeeded Shōzaburō Jimi as Minister for Special Tasks at the Cabinet Office for the financial sector and received like Jimi also the responsibility for post-privatization.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Japan's financial services minister found dead in suspected suicide . In: The Japan Times . September 11, 2012, accessed on September 11, 2012 .
  2. ↑ 松下 金融 担当 相 が 自殺 か . (No longer available online.) In: MSN / Sankei News. September 10, 2012, archived from the original on September 12, 2012 ; Retrieved September 10, 2012 (Japanese). 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 / sankei.jp.msn.com
  3. ^ Financial Times : Japan financial services minister found dead , accessed September 10, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Matsushita, Tadahiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 松下 忠 洋 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Sendai (Kagoshima) , Kagoshima Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 2012
Place of death Kōtō , Tokyo Prefecture