Takeo Kawamura

Takeo Kawamura

Takeo Kawamura ( Japanese 河村 建 夫 , Kawamura Takeo ; born November 10, 1942 in Hagi , Yamaguchi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , and former minister. Within the LDP, he belongs to the Nikai faction .

Life

Kawamura worked after studying at Keiō University from 1967 for Seibu Sekiyu KK ( Eng. Seibu Oil Co., Ltd. ). After his father's death, he was elected as a candidate for the LDP in 1976 for his seat in the Yamaguchi prefectural parliament; he stayed there continuously for the next 14 years.

Since the 1990 election , Kawamura has been a member of the Shūgiin. First he represented there the four-person constituency Yamaguchi 1, in which he won a seat in 1990 with the fourth-highest, 1993 with the third-highest percentage of votes; after the electoral reform, Kawamura starts in the single constituency Yamaguchi 3, which he won six times.

In 1996 Kawamura became deputy chairman of the Political Research Council ( PARC ) of the LDP, and in 1997 Parliamentary State Secretary ( seimu-jikan ) in the Ministry of Justice . His main focus, however, was on educational policy, which he dealt with several times in Shūgiin committees and party bodies. In 1999 and 2000 he was twice parliamentary state secretary in the Ministry of Education , in 2001 and 2002 twice state secretary ( fuku-daijin ) in the successor Ministry to MEXT , before Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi appointed him to his cabinet as minister in charge in September 2003 . In September 2004, Nariaki Nakayama replaced him .

From 2005 to 2007 Kawamura was again vice chairman of the PARC . From September 2008 to September 2009 he was under Prime Minister Tarō Asō as chief cabinet secretary in the cabinet Asō for the second time minister. In the LDP defeat in the Shūgiin election in 2009 , Kawamura was able to defend his constituency and was then chairman of the disciplinary committee ( chōbatsu iinkai ) until 2010 . Like Prime Minister Abe and other cabinet and LDP party members, Kawamura is close to Nippon Kaigi , who is considered revisionist .

Web links

• Official website (Japanese, English)
• The Japan Times : Cabinet Profiles (English)