Tanigaki Sen'ichi

Tanigaki Sen'ichi ( Japanese 谷 垣 専 一 ; born January 18, 1913 in Fukuchiyama , Kyoto Prefecture ; † June 27, 1983 ) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( Ikeda faction ), member of the House of Representatives , the lower house of the national parliament , for the 2nd constituency of Kyoto and from 1979 to 1980 Minister of Education.

Tanigaki became a civil servant in the then Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry after completing his studies at the law faculty of the Imperial University of Tokyo, now the University of Tokyo . In the Shūgiin election in 1960 , he applied in the five-mandate Kyōto 2 constituency, which included a small part of the city of Kyoto and all other communities in Kyoto, for a seat for the LDP. He received the fourth highest percentage of votes and was then re-elected seven times in a row.

Tanigaki was, among other things, Parliamentary State Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Construction and in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Vice Secretary-General in the LDP. In 1979, Tanigaki took over the Ministry of Culture in the second cabinet of Ōhira Masayoshi , who had meanwhile taken over the chairmanship of the former Ikeda faction .

Tanigaki died in June 1983; his constituency mandate was won by his son Sadakazu in a by-election, who later became a minister several times, in 2005 chairman of part of the temporarily divided former Ikeda faction and in 2009 party chairman.

family

Tanigaki's wife was the daughter of Kagesa Sadaaki , Lieutenant General of the Imperial Army and a military advisor to Wang Jingwei's Chinese puppet government in Nanjing during the Pacific War.

Web links

• LDP Prefectural Association of Kyoto, Historical Chairmen and General Secretaries : Tanigaki Sen'ichi (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kingendaikeizu.net: Tanigaki Sadakazu's family tree

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Tanigaki is the family name, Sen'ichi the first name.