Sadakazu Tanigaki

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Sadakazu Tanigaki (2013)

Sadakazu Tanigaki ( Japanese 谷 垣 禎 一 , Tanigaki Sadakazu ; born March 7, 1945 in Fukuchiyama , Kyoto Prefecture ) is a former Japanese politician and was a member of the lower house of the national parliament for 12 terms . From 2009 to 2012 he was chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and from 2005 to 2008 led the Tanigaki faction , the smaller part of the Kōchikai split in 2000 , within the party , before the two groups reunited in May 2008. Among other things, he was Minister of Justice, Finance and Transport in his country. From 2014 to 2016 he was also Secretary General of the LDP.

Life

Tanigaki attended the renowned Azabu High School and then studied law at the University of Tokyo . After a brief activity as a lawyer, he was elected in 1983 on the death of his father, the former Minister of Education Tanigaki Sen'ichi , in his lower house in the five-mandate 2nd constituency of the Kyoto prefecture . He has been re-elected ten times since then, since 1996 in the new Kyoto 5 single-seat constituency .

In 1997 he became Minister in the Office of Science and Technology ( 科学 技術 庁 , Kagaku Gijutsu Chō ) for the first time. Under Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi he served as a minister in various departments. From 2003 until the end of the Koizumi era in 2006, Tanigaki was Minister of Finance. In the race to succeed Koizumi in the party and government chairmanship, he was defeated by Shinzo Abe and Taro Aso . During the election campaign for party leadership, Tanigaki ruled out a visit to the Yasukuni Shrine should he be elected.

Since Yasuo Fukuda's inauguration as party chairman and prime minister in September 2007, Tanigaki has been chairman of the LDP's Policy Affairs Research Council , one of the three key party posts that the party chairman-prime minister distributes among factions and which alongside important cabinet posts (cabinet secretary, foreign minister) opportunities open to a successor to the party chairman. In a cabinet reshuffle in August 2008, Fukuda Tanigaki appointed Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT), his successor as Chairman of the PARC was the non-attached Kōsuke Hori . When Prime Minister Tarō Asō took office in September 2008, Tanigaki was replaced in the MLIT by Nariaki Nakayama .

In the election of the LDP party leader in 2009, Tanigaki ran to succeed Tarō Asō and won with 300 of 499 votes against Tarō Kōno and Yasutoshi Nishimura . He was the second LDP chairman after Yōhei Kōno , who was not also prime minister. He was able to stabilize the position of the LDP after the last devastating election results in the opposition and was able to record a success less than a year after the loss of power when the new government lost its majority in the 2010 upper house election . On September 10, 2012, he announced that he did not want to run for election as the new LDP chairman on September 26th.

In December 2012, his successor Shinzō Abe appointed him as Minister of Justice in his second cabinet . Tanigaki stayed there until the cabinet reshuffle in September 2014 , when he returned to the party leadership as LDP general secretary. From this post he was replaced by Toshihiro Nikai in August 2016 . As Justice Minister he authorized eleven executions, two of them shortly before the end of his term in office, more than any Justice Minister since Kunio Hatoyama 2007-2008.

In July 2016, Tanigaki had a bicycle accident and sustained a spinal cord injury , after which he was treated in a hospital until September 2017. As a consequence, he officially announced on September 25, 2017 that he would end his political career and not run for another term in the Shūgiin election in 2017 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC News, July 27, 2006: Japan minister declares candidacy
  2. ^ AP, September 20, 2006: Abe Wins Vote for Japan Party Presidency
  3. ↑ BBC News, August 15, 2006: Koizumi shrine visit stokes anger
  4. ^ AP, September 24, 2007: Fukuda fills key posts in Japan's Liberal Democratic Party
  5. ↑ Ex-Finance Minister Tanigaki intends to seek LDP's top spot. In: The Japan Times . September 14, 2009, accessed September 15, 2009 .
  6. ↑ 谷 垣 氏 が 不 出馬 表明 . (No longer available online.) In: MSN 産 経 ニ ュ ー ス . September 11, 2012, archived from the original on September 12, 2012 ; Retrieved September 27, 2012 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sankei.jp.msn.com
  7. ^ Japan executes two more prisoners. Eleven death sentences have been carried out since Shinzo Abe came to power in 2012. In: The Guardian . August 29, 2014, accessed September 4, 2014 .
  8. ↑ 自 民 ・ 谷 垣 氏 、 政界 引退 を 発 表 . In: Nihon Keizai Shimbun . September 25, 2012, Retrieved September 25, 2012 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Tanigaki, Sadakazu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Fukuchiyama , Kyoto Prefecture