Tsuyoshi Takagi

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Tsuyoshi Takagi

Tsuyoshi Takagi ( Japanese 高木 毅 , Takagi Tsuyoshi ; born January 16, 1956 in Tsuruga , Fukui Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( LDP , Hosoda faction ), member of parliament ( Lower House - constituency Fukui 2) and was from October 2015 to August 2016 Minister of Reconstruction in the Cabinet ( Abe III (1st reshuffle) ).

Takagi, the son of the politician Kōichi Takagi - among other things a member of the parliament and president of the prefectural parliament of Fukui and mayor of Tsuruga - graduated in 1978 from the law faculty of the Aoyama Gakuin University and in 1980 became director of the wholesale company Takagi Shōji [KK ] (Takagi [Corp.]). In the young entrepreneurs association Nippon seine kaigisho (English Junior Chamber International Japan) he was from 1996 chairman of the regional assembly Hokuriku - Shin'etsu .

Takagi tried to switch to active politics in the 1996 general election , when he ran for the LDP in what was then Fukui 3 constituency. He was defeated by the Democrat Kazuhiko Tsuji ( SPJ MP for the prefecture-wide Fukui constituency before the 1994 electoral reform). In the second attempt in the 2000 election , Takagi won against Tsuji and then defended the seat four times in a row with absolute majorities; after the reorganization of constituencies in Fukui in 2013, the candidate in the new constituency 2, which he in 2014 won confidently against Tsujis son Kazunori. From 2005 to 2006 ( Cabinet Koizumi III (reshuffle) ) he was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Defense Authority, then in the LDP, among other things, Vice Secretary-General and Chairman of the PARC Subcommittee on Foreign Policy, briefly Chairman of the Committee on the Rules of Procedure of the House of Commons in 2013, then until 2014 ( Cabinet Abe II ) Vice Minister in the MLIT .

In October 2015, Takagi replaced Wataru Takeshita as minister at the head of the reconstruction agency in a cabinet reshuffle . Masahiro Imamura succeeded him in the cabinet reshuffle in August 2016 .

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SURNAME Takagi, Tsuyoshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 高木 毅 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Tsuruga , Fukui Prefecture