Takeo Nishioka

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Takeo Nishioka ( Japanese 西岡 武夫 , Nishioka Takeo ; born February 12, 1936 in Nagasaki , Nagasaki Prefecture ; † November 5, 2011 in Tokyo Prefecture ) was a Japanese politician and since 2010 President of the Sangiin , the upper house of the Japanese Parliament . He belonged to the Democratic Party (DPJ) and in it the Ozawa group ; since his election as president he was formally non-attached .

Life

Nishioka was born in 1936 as the son of Shūgiin MP Takejirō Nishioka , founder of a forerunner of the Nagasaki Shimbun and the second elected governor of Nagasaki after World War II. His mother was Haru Nishioka , who later became Sangiin MP . During his studies at Waseda University , which Nishioka graduated from in 1959, he worked for his father's newspaper, where he continued to work afterwards.

In the Shūgiin election in 1963 , Nishioka stepped as an independent in the five-mandate 1st constituency of Nagasaki, which also includes the city of Nagasaki, and was elected for the first time with the fourth highest percentage of votes. He was then confirmed a total of ten times for the Shūgiin. He first joined the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), where he headed, among other things, the “youth department” ( seine-kyoku ; for under 45s). In the wake of the Lockheed scandal , he left the party and participated in the founding of the New Liberal Club of Yōhei Kōno and Seiichi Tagawa and became general secretary of the new party. Already in 1979 he left the New Liberal Club and returned to the LDP a year later. Elected in 1983, he was able to win back a seat in his constituency in 1986 with the highest percentage of votes. Within the party, he belonged to the later Miyazawa faction .

At the end of the 1980s Nishioka rose to higher government and party positions: from 1988 to 1989 he was minister of culture in the Takeshita and UNo cabinets ; In 1990 he received one of the " three party offices " under the reformist Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu as chairman of the Executive Council of the LDP . Kaifu, Nishioka, General Secretary Ichirō Ozawa and PARC Chairman Katō Mutsuki tried to push through political reforms in the LDP, but failed because of internal party resistance. After Kaifu's fall in 1991, all four left the party in the early 1990s.

In the Shūgiin election in 1993 Nishioka was re-elected for the LDP, but left the party in the same year and then belonged to the Kaikaku no Kai ("Reform Assembly"), the party alliance Jiyū Kaikaku Rengō ("Liberal Reform Alliance") and finally from 1994 to New Progress Party . Under Ichirō Ozawa he headed the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs there in 1996. He was then general secretary until the party was dissolved in 1997. He then followed Ozawa into the Liberal Party .

After the electoral reform of 1994 Nishioka ran in the election of 1996 in the new constituency Nagasaki 1 , which he won, but gave up his mandate in 1998 for the gubernatorial election in Nagasaki. In the decision on the successor to the long-time governor Isamu Takada Nishioka was defeated by Genjirō Kaneko with around 290 to 412 thousand votes. He returned to parliament in the 2001 Sangiin election , when he led the Liberal Party's proportional representation list with over 120,000 preferential votes. After the Liberals joined the Democratic Party, he was re-elected nationwide for a further six years in 2007 via the DPJ list with 151,376 preferential votes. From 2007 to 2010 he chaired the Executive Committee of Sangiin (Sangiin giin unei iinkai) ; In 2010 he replaced Satsuki Eda as President of the Chamber.

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