Taizō Mikazuki

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Taizō Mikazuki ( Japanese 三 日月 大 造 , Mikazuki Taizō ; * May 24, 1971 ) is a Japanese politician, governor of Shiga since July 2014 and a former member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament .

After his school days in the city of Ōtsu Mikazuki studied at the economics faculty of Hitotsubashi University in Tōkyō . After graduating in 1994, he became an employee of the JR Nishi-Nihon (Engl. JR West ), where he was involved in the corporate union ( JR Nishi-rōso ), then also the JR Rengō , one of the successor associations of the state railroad unions . In 1999 he headed the youth and women committees in both unions. In 2002 he left the JR Nishi-Nihon and attended the Matsushita seikei-juku .

In the Shūgiin election 2003 he ran for the Democratic Party in the 2002 newly tailored constituency Shiga 3 and won with 48% of the vote. In 2005 and 2009 he was re-elected. In the 2012 Shūgiin election, he lost around 4,000 votes to the Liberal Democrat Nobuhide Takemura , but won a seat in the Kinki proportional representation. During the Democratic reign, he was State Secretary ( daijinseimukan ) under the Hatoyama Cabinet and Vice Minister ( fukudaijin ) for the Kan Cabinet in the Ministry of Land and Transport .

In spring 2014, he announced his candidacy for the upcoming gubernatorial election in Shiga, which is scheduled for the summer . Governor Yukiko Kada announced in May that she would not run again after two terms and would now support his election campaign. Mikazuki left the Democratic Party and resigned as a member of parliament, followed by Tatsuo Kawabata , also from Shiga. The main rival candidate in the gubernatorial election was former civil servant Takashi Koyari, who was supported by the ruling parties at the national level. After a relatively intense election campaign, including assessing Kada's reign, nuclear power, especially the restart of the power plants in neighboring Fukui , constitutional and security policy (Article 9) and an additional Shinkansen connection for Shiga, which Kada rejected , Mikazuki sat down in the election on July 13th: He received 253,728 votes (46.3%), Koyari 240,652 (43.9%), the communist candidate Ikuo Tsubota 53,280 votes (9.7%). In the capital Ōtsu, the cities of Nagahama and Takashima, and in the districts of Shiga, Koyari received more votes than Mikazuki, but Mikazuki achieved a sufficiently large lead in the remaining independent cities to win the election. In 2018 , Mikazuki was re-elected for a second term against just one Communist challenger with 83% of the vote.

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  1. ↑ Eric Johnston: LDP candidate flounders in Shiga governor race. In: The Japan Times . July 14, 2014, accessed July 14, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Shiga election results highlight complacency in ruling parties. (No longer available online.) In: Yomiuri Shimbun The Japan News. July 14, 2014, archived from the original on July 15, 2014 ; accessed on July 14, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Shiga election delivers setback for Abe government. (No longer available online.) In: Asahi Shimbun , Asia & Japan Watch. July 14, 2014, archived from the original on July 15, 2014 ; accessed on July 14, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Japanese PM Abe's Security-Policy Shift Blamed for Local Poll Loss. In: Time . July 14, 2014, accessed July 14, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Shiga Prefectural Election Oversight Commission: Final result of the 2014 gubernatorial election (Japanese) ( Memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ 滋 賀 県 知事 選 . In: NHK Senkyo Web. June 24, 2018. Retrieved July 31, 2019 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Mikazuki, Taizō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 三 日月 大 造 (Mikazuki Taizō)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1971