Takeshi Iwaya

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Takeshi Iwaya (2018)

Takeshi Iwaya ( Japanese 岩 屋 毅 , Iwaya Takeshi ; born August 24, 1957 in Beppu , Ōita Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of  the Liberal Democratic Party ( Asō faction ), member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , for the constituency of Ōita 3 and former Minister of Defense .

Life

Iwaya was born on August 25, 1957 as the son of a local politician in Beppu . He studied political science at Waseda University  and then became secretary to LDP politician Kunio Hatoyama . In 1987 he ran successfully as an independent candidate in the election of the prefectural parliament of Ōita and in 1990 in the general election in the former three- mandate constituency Ōita 2, which also included the city of Beppu. Shortly after moving into the House of Commons, he joined the LDP, but left it in 1993 and helped found the New Sakigake Party . In the general election of the year , the constituency Ōita 2 was reduced to two seats and Iwaya narrowly missed re-election, as was the case in the 1996 election as a candidate for the New Progress Party in the new single-mandate constituency Ōita 3. Thereupon he returned to the LDP and was elected in the 2000 election re-elected to the House of Commons.

In the Mori cabinet , which was reorganized for the second time , he became parliamentary deputy minister in the defense authority in 2001 and, in  2006, deputy minister  in the foreign ministry in the first Abe cabinet . In the general election in 2009 he lost his constituency for the first time to the DPJ candidate Katsuhiko Yokomitsu ( 横 光 克 彦 , Yokomitsu Katsuhiko ), but was able to move in via the Kyūshū proportional representation . In 2010 he became defense minister in the shadow cabinet of LDP chairman Sadakazu Tanigaki . In June 2011, Iwaya voted against LDP parliamentary group discipline for a  draft submitted by the DPJ under Prime Minister Naoto Kan to extend the session of the 177th National Parliament and was subsequently expelled from all party offices for one year. In the 2012 election , in which the LDP  again took over government under Shinzō Abe , he won his constituency so clearly that Yokomitsu missed a seat on the proportional representation.

Prime Minister Abe appointed Iwaya as defense minister in the reshaped Abe fourth cabinet . He remained in office until another cabinet reshuffle in September 2019 , when he was replaced by Tarō Kōno .

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  1. ↑ Japan's Prime Minister Abe appoints new defense minister. In: The world . October 2, 2018, accessed October 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Iwaya, Takeshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 岩 屋 毅 (Japanese, Kanji); い わ や た け し (Japanese, Hiragana)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Beppu , Oita Prefecture