Takahiro Sasaki (politician)

Takahiro Sasaki (2012)

Takahiro Sasaki ( Japanese 佐 々 木 隆博 , Sasaki Takahiro ; born March 10, 1949 in Shibetsu , Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese politician ( SPJ → SDP → DPJ → DFP → KDP ), a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , for the constituency Hokkaidō 6 and former Vice Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries .

Life

Sasaki was born on March 10, 1949 in Shibetsu, Hokkaidō. After graduating from high school , he worked as a farmer and from 1971 participated in agricultural interest groups. In 1987 he was elected as a candidate of the Socialist Party of Japan (SPJ) in the prefectural parliament of Hokkaidō and held this mandate after four re-elections until 2005. In 1996 he resigned from the Social Democratic Party , the successor to the SPJ, and joined the Democratic Party (DPJ) .

In the general election in 2005 he stepped as a DPJ candidate in the constituency of Hokkaidō 6 against the LDP candidate Eikō Kaneta and a communist and moved into the lower house with 46.7% of the votes (Kaneta 45.8%). In the 2009 election he was re-elected and appointed "Parliamentary State Secretary" in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Hatoyama cabinet ; he also held this office in the Kan cabinet . In 2012 he was appointed Vice Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture to the Noda cabinet, which was reorganized for the second and third time . In the general election in December 2012 he was clearly defeated by the LDP candidate Hiroshi Imazu (Sasaki 28.9%; Imazu 42.9%) and left parliament.

His return to the House of Commons followed in the 2014 election (Sasaki 45.3%; Imazu 44.0%). In October 2017 he left the Democratic Progressive Party , the successor party of the DPJ, and stood in the 2017 election as a candidate for the Constitutional Democratic Party (KDP), which was founded by Yukio Edano shortly before . There he was appointed deputy party chairman and chairman of the KDP prefectural association Hokkaidō and was then able to defend his constituency (Sasaki 54.4%; Imazu 45.5%). In November 2018 he also took over the chairmanship of the Shizuoka Prefectural Association and did not stand for another term as Chairman of the Prefectural Association in August 2019 after the defeat of the opposition candidate Tomohiro Ishikawa in the gubernatorial election in Hokkaidō in April 2019 . His successor was Seiji Osaka .

Web links

Commons : Takahiro Sasaki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Website (Japanese)