Tetsuro Fukuyama
Tetsurō Fukuyama ( Japanese. 福山 哲 郎 , Fukuyama Tetsurō ; born January 19, 1962 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and general secretary of the Constitutional Democratic Party and member of the Sangiin , the upper house of the national parliament , for the Kyoto prefecture .
Fukuyama graduated from Dōshisha University in 1985 with a law degree and then became an employee of the Daiwa Shōken securities firm . In 1990, in the 11th year, he attended the Matsushita Seikei Juku ( 松下 政 経 塾 , Matsushita Institute of Government and Management ), in 1991 he visited projects of the Sarvodaya Shramadana movement in Sri Lanka , where he also met the founder and Gandhi Peace Prize winner Ariyaratne encountered. Back in Japan, he worked from 1992 to set up regional branches of the Matsushita Seikei Juku, until 1995 he acquired the master's degree ( shūshi ) at the Graduate School of the University of Kyoto .
In the 1996 Shūgiin election , Fukuyama ran for the (“old”) Democratic Party in the 1st constituency of Kyoto , the constituency of Bummei Ibuki , but ended up in fourth place. He then took on leadership positions in the Kyoto Prefectural Association in the Democratic Party - as chairman from 2002 - and was particularly involved in issues of environmental and climate policy - he later headed, among other things, the "Main Department for Measures against Global Warming" ( 地球 温暖 化 対 策本部 , chikyū ondanka taisaku hombu ) of the party.
In the Sangiin election in 1998 , Fukuyama in Kyoto Prefecture (two mandates) stood as an independent and was elected to the Sangiin with the highest percentage of votes before the communist Tokiko Nishiyama . In 1999 he formally joined the (“new”) Democratic Party, for which he was re-elected in 2004 and 2010 with the highest percentage of votes in Kyoto. From 2005 to 2006 he headed the Sangiin's environmental committee. In June 2008 he was instrumental in the introduction of the draft for a “basic law to combat global warming” ( 地球 温暖 化 対 策 基本法 , chikyū ondanka taisaku kihon-hō ), which compared to a reduction target of 25% for CO 2 emissions Formulated from 1990 to 2020. This demand was also included in the 2009 election manifesto of the Democratic Party, but after the successful takeover of government it was called into question again. The draft law was re-introduced in 2009 in a modified form, passed by the cabinet in 2010 in a new form, but not finally discussed in parliament.
After taking up the democratically led Hatoyama cabinet, Fukuyama became Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2009 , and from 2010 to 2011 he was Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary under Prime Minister Naoto Kan . From 2011 to 2013 he was chairman of the Foreign and Defense Committee (gaikō-bōei-iinkai) in the Sangiin. In the Democratic Party, he chaired the Political Research Council from 2014 to 2015.
In 2016 , Fukuyama was only with the second highest share of the vote (36.9%) behind the Liberal Democrat Satoshi Ninoyu (40.0%), but a certain lead over the communist Toshitaka Ōkawara (20.0%) for another six years for the newly founded Minshintō re-elected.
Shortly after the founding of the Constitutional Democratic Party , he joined it and was appointed general secretary of the party.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Kantei : Short biography ( Japanese , English )
- Sangiin: MP, Fukuyama Tetsurō (Japanese, English )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Sangiin election results 2016, constituencies, Kōyto-fu
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fukuyama, Tetsuro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 福山 哲 郎 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo prefecture |