Tetsurō Yano

Tetsurō Yano ( Japanese 矢野 哲朗 , Yano Tetsurō ; born November 6, 1946 in Utsunomiya , Tochigi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Shintō Kaikaku , former member of the Sangiin , the upper house, for Tochigi and former state secretary.

Yano graduated from the Law Faculty of Keiō University in 1970 with a degree in political science . He then became an employee of Sankyō Bussan. 1983 he was elected to the Tochigi Prefectural Parliament for the first of three legislative terms. In the Sangiin election in 1992 , Yano switched to national politics and received the second highest percentage of votes as a candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Tochigi (until 2004: two seats). He was re-elected in 1998 and 2004 . In the LDP he was last part of the Ibuki faction .

In the 1990s, Yano was, among other things, Parliamentary State Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the defense authority and in the Ministry of Agriculture . In 1999 he took over the chairmanship of the Foreign and Defense Committee at Sangiin. In 2002 he became State Secretary ( fuku-daijin , "Vice Minister") in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Koizumi cabinet .

In April 2010, Yano left the LDP at the same time as the former Minister of Social Affairs Yōichi Masuzoe . Together with members of the Kaikaku Club , they founded the Shinto Kaikaku under Masuzoe's chairmanship for the 2010 Sangiin election , in which Yano himself did not run as a candidate. Yano is the party's vice chairman.

family

Yano's father Noboru was an LDP MP in the Sangiin for Tochigi, his uncle Masao in the post-war period from the 1st constituency of Tochigi in the Shūgiin for the Democratic Party .

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Sangiin: Short biography ( Japanese ( Memento from April 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ))