Tamisuke Watanuki

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Tamisuke Watanuki ( Japanese 綿 貫 民 輔 , Watanuki Tamisuke ; born April 30, 1927 in Inami , Higashitonami County (now: Nanto ), Toyama , Japan ) is a Japanese politician and former MP of the Japanese Lower House (Shūgiin) and chairman of the New People's Party . As a longstanding member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), he was, among other things, President of the Lower House, Minister of State and LDP General Secretary.

Life

Watanuki is the son of the entrepreneur and MP Suketami Watanuki . He graduated from Keiō University in 1955 , then took over the management of the Tonami Un'yu KK ( English Tonami Transportation Co., Ltd. ), whose president is now his son Katsusuke. In 1959, he was elected to the Toyama Prefectural Parliament when he ran for the second time. In the 1969 general election in the three- mandate 2nd constituency of Toyama, he was elected to the national parliament for the first time as an LDP candidate. There he was confirmed as a member of parliament 13 times in a row, even after the constituency reform in the new single constituency Toyama 3, until he was voted out of office in 2009. In the LDP, he initially joined the Kawashima / Shiina faction , after which he was part of the Tanaka faction. Faction and finally from 1985 to Heisei Kenkyūkai , the Takeshita / Kanemaru / Obuchi / Hashimoto faction.

After several state secretaries and committee posts, Watanuki was appointed to the cabinet for the first time in 1986 as head of the authority for state land and the authorities for the development of Okinawa and Hokkaidōs . In 1990 he became Minister of Construction in the 2nd Kaifu Cabinet . In 1991 he took over the role of LDP general secretary under Kiichi Miyazawa . When his faction chairman Keizō Obuchi became party chairman-prime minister in 1998 , Watanuki took over the chairmanship of Heisei Kenkyūkai for two years. In 2000 he was elected President of the House of Commons (until 2003).

In the dispute over the post-privatization law initiated by Jun'ichirō Koizumi in 2005, Watanuki was one of the leaders of Koizumi's internal party opponents. For the resulting new elections , he founded the New People's Party (Kokumin Shintō) together with Shizuka Kamei and other "rebels" . He was able to defend his constituency against the "assassin" candidate Kyogon Hagiyama nominated by Koizumi . Koizumi's strategy worked out overall and the post-privatization could be carried out as planned. However, unlike the New Party Japan, which was founded at the same time, the New People's Party was able to hold its seats and moved into the lower house with four members.

After that, his party worked in the opposition with the Democratic Party ( Minshutō ), although unlike the New Japan Party, it advertises a rural, more conservative electorate. In the Sangiin , the House of Lords, the three parties form a common faction.

Watanuki participated in the spring visit by MPs and ministers to Yasukuni Shrine in 2008, 2009 and 2010 .

In the 2009 general election , he did not succeed in being re-elected. He was a candidate in the Hokuriku-Shin'etsu ( Niigata , Toyama , Ishikawa , Fukui , Nagano ) proportional representation bloc . However, outside of his home prefecture, Toyama, his party was barely able to get votes and therefore was unable to send a candidate to parliament. The following day he announced his resignation as party chairman.

Watanuki is also the president of the Japan Badminton Association and the Toyama Prefecture Badminton Association .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reiji Yoshida: Watanuki draws 95 foes to postal reform. Election-wary LDP protest rally stops short of demanding Koizumi ouster. In: The Japan Times . April 8, 2005, accessed May 15, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Tetsushi Kajimoto: New parties to team up against LDP: Watanuki. In: The Japan Times . August 24, 2005, accessed May 15, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Masami Itō and Takahiro Fukada: Lawmakers visit Yasukuni festival. In: The Japan Times . April 23, 2008, accessed May 15, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Japan lawmakers visit Yasukuni shrine. In: The China. December 27, 2010, accessed October 9, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Japanese Badminton Association: Presidium
  6. ↑ Toyama Prefecture Badminton Association: Presidium

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personal data
SURNAME Watanuki, Tamisuke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 綿 貫 民 輔 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Inami , Higashitonami-gun , Toyama Prefecture , Japan