Taku Yamasaki

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Taku Yamasaki on April 9, 2005 at a public address in Fukuoka Prefecture

Taku Yamasaki ( Japanese 山 﨑 拓 Yamasaki Taku ; born December 11, 1936 in Dalian , Japanese Empire / Manchukuo (today: People's Republic of China )) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and former construction minister. Within the party he led the Yamasaki faction (currently called the Ishihara faction) with currently 13 members in the lower house and one in the upper house . In 2015 he was the parliamentary group's top adviser.

After studying economics at Waseda University , which he graduated in 1959, he worked for the tire manufacturer Bridgestone for five years . He then turned to politics: in 1967 he was elected to the Fukuoka Prefectural Parliament. In 1969 he ran unsuccessfully as a non-party member of the lower house, three years later he was elected to the lower house in what was then the 1st constituency of Fukuoka Prefecture and was re-elected seven times (as an LDP member). (Since the constituencies were reorganized in 1996, Yamasaki has been running in the 2nd constituency of Fukuoka, where he was confirmed for the fourth time in 2005)

In 1978 Yamasaki became Parliamentary Secretary of State, first in the Ministry of Health, then in the Defense Agency (now the Ministry of Defense). In 1984 he rose to the rank of ministerial for the first time as chief secretary of the cabinet, later he was head of the defense agency and building minister in alternation with various party offices.

Within the LDP, Yamasaki initially belonged to the Nakasone or Watanabe faction. In 1998 he left them and founded his own faction with 37 members, which led to the dissolution of the Watanabe faction four months later. The remains of them joined the Shisuikai, today's Ibuki faction.

Taku Yamasaki was considered a close confidante of Jun'ichirō Koizumi ; together with Kōichi Katō they were referred to as YKK in Japan. When Koizumi took over the party and government chairmanship in 2001, he appointed Yamasaki as LDP general secretary, then before the 2003 election as deputy party chairman.

In the 2003 general election , Yamasaki lost his constituency under the influence of a sex scandal to the democratic challenger Jun'ichirō Koga and then resigned. Koga, a former tennis professional who was considered the DPJ's hope after the election victory, resigned himself a few months later because he had given false information about his academic career in the USA. In 2004 Yamasaki was special advisor to the Prime Minister ( 内閣 総 理 大臣 補 佐 官 , Naikaku Sōri-daijin Hosakan ), in the new elections in 2005 he won his constituency back. Since the end of the Koizumi era, he was chairman of various party bodies.

In connection with the bribery scandal surrounding the armaments company Yamada Yōkō, Taku Yamasaki's name appeared during the parliamentary hearing of former Defense Secretary Takemasa Moriya , but Yamasaki denies any connection.

In the LDP defeat in the 2009 general election , Yamasaki lost his seat, but remains chairman of his parliamentary group after consulting General Secretary Nobuteru Ishihara .

family

Yamasaki's father was the rector of Sagami Joshi Daigaku ("Sagami Women's University") in Sagamihara . His paternal grandfather Kazusaburō (?, 和 三郎 ) was a senior member of the nationalist organization Gen'yōsha .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nikai, Ishihara Factions Likely Eying Merger. In: The Daily Yomiuri. April 13, 2015, accessed April 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ yes: YKK (政治 同盟)
  3. ^ The Japan Times, April 23, 2003: Sex scandal bodes ill for Koizumi administration
  4. ↑ Kyodo News, February 2, 2004: Scandal-tainted lawmaker Koga refuses to quit
  5. ^ The Japan Times, April 25, 2005: Koizumi gets boost with by-election wins
  6. ↑ The Japan Times, October 31, 2007: Nukaga, Yamasaki deny links to trader
  7. ↑ 自 公 、 動 揺 収 ま ら ず 自 民 は 総 裁 選 へ 本命 不在 . In: nikkei.net . September 4, 2009, accessed October 10, 2009 .
  8. ↑ Interview of the Asahi Shimbun with Yamasaki on Yamasaki's website
personal data
SURNAME Yamasaki, Taku
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 山 﨑 拓 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Dalian , Manchukuo