Tadamasa Kodaira

Tadamasa Kodaira

Tadamasa Kodaira ( Japanese 小平 忠 正 , Kodaira Tadamasa ; born March 18, 1942 in Iwamizawa , Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese politician. From 1990 to 2012 he was a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , most recently for the constituency of Hokkaidō 10 as a member of the Democratic Party (including the Hatoyama and ex-DSP groups).

Kodaira, the son of long-time DSP Shūgiin delegate Tadashi Kodaira , became an employee of the trading house Tōmen (now part of Toyota Tsūshō ) after graduating from Keiō University . In 1972 he left the company and founded a cattle breeding business in Kurisawa .

Kodaira's father was voted out in the 1986 Shūgiin election in the five-mandate constituency of Hokkaidō 4 (the constituency of, among others, Yukio Hatoyama and Seiichi Ikehata ) and withdrew from politics. In the next regular election in 1990 , Tadamasa Kodaira stood for the DSP in his father's constituency and was elected for the first time with the fourth-highest percentage of votes. He was re-elected in 1993 and since 1996 five times in a row in the new constituency Hokkaidō 10 . He left the New Progressive Party , in which the DSP was absorbed, in 1995 and joined the New Party Sakigake of his previous constituency competitor Hatoyama. During Hashimoto's first cabinet , he was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture . After the founding of the Democratic Party in 1996, Kodaira became the first chairman of the Hokkaidō Prefectural Association. Later he was chairman of the communication committee and the agriculture committee of the Shūgiin, and in 2010 he took over the chairmanship of the committee for foreign affairs.

In the 3rd reshaped cabinet, Noda , Kodaira became Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and Minister for Consumer and Food Safety in 2012 . After Keishu Tanaka's resignation as Minister of Justice , he also temporarily took over his post for a few hours. In the Shūgiin election in 2012 he was elected as one of eight ministers in the cabinet from parliament, he lost his constituency for the first time since the introduction of the single- mandate constituencies to Hisashi Inatsu from the Kōmeitō .

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)