Tetsuzō Fuyushiba

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Tetsuzō Fuyushiba, 2006

Tetsuzō Fuyushiba ( Japanese 冬 柴 鐵 三 , Fuyushiba Tetsuzō ; born June 29, 1936 in Mukden , China (today: Shenyang, Liaoning Province , People's Republic of China ); † December 5, 2011 in Amagasaki , Japan ) was a Japanese politician of the Kōmeitō , Minister and MP in the Shūgiin , the lower house.

Life

Fuyushiba was born one year before the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in the Japanese satellite state of Manchukuo . He spent his school days in Mie Prefecture . He studied law at Kansai University until 1960 , and passed his bar exam in 1961. In 1963 he was involved in founding the Midosuji law firm in Osaka , for which he then worked for over twenty years.

In 1986 Fuyushiba ran successfully for Shūgiin in the 2nd constituency (since 1998: 8th constituency) of Hyōgo Prefecture and has since been re-elected six times. He initially belonged to the Kōmeitō, which was then in the opposition. In 1993, in the anti- LDP coalition government of Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa , Fuyushiba became Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior . After the return of the LDP to power and the dissolution of the Kōmeitō, he joined the New Progressive Party . Under chairman Ichirō Ozawa Fuyushiba became vice chairman of the parliamentary affairs committee.

After the dissolution of the New Progressive Party, Fuyushiba became General Secretary of the newly founded New Peace Party ( 新 党 平和 , shintō heiwa ) in 1998 . In the same year the party became part of the New Kōmeitō, Fuyushiba was involved as its general secretary in the talks that led to a governing coalition with the LDP in 1999. In September 2006 Fuyushiba became Minister for Land, Infrastructure and Transport in Abe's cabinet and the only representative of his party in the cabinet; his successor as general secretary was Kazuo Kitakawa . After Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda had initially accepted him into his cabinet , the Kōmeitō took over the Ministry of the Environment in the cabinet reshuffle in August 2008 . Fuyushiba's successor as minister was Sadakazu Tanigaki (LDP).

In the Shūgiin election in 2009 Fuyushiba lost his constituency to Yasuo Tanaka ( New Party Japan ) and then declared his retirement from politics. He died of pneumonia at the age of 75 in Amagasaki Hospital , Hyogo Prefecture.

Political positions and activity as minister

During his tenure as general secretary, Fuyushiba urged coalition partner Jun'ichirō Koizumi to refrain from planned visits to the Yasukuni Shrine .

Fuyushiba advocated the right to vote in prefecture and local elections for all foreigners living in Japan, while parts of the LDP want this right only to South Koreans and Taiwanese.

When Fuyushibas took office as Minister for Land, Infrastructure and Tourism, his ministry also took on special responsibility for tourism promotion ( 観 光 立国 , kankō rikkoku , German: "national establishment of tourism"), which, on his initiative, should lead to the establishment of an independent tourism authority .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Yomiuri Online. The Yomiuri Shimbun. ( Memento from December 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Japan Times, August 12, 2001: Koizumi will not go to Yasukuni Shrine, key LDP ally claims
  3. ↑ Japan Times, November 30, 2000: Suffrage bill may be unconstitutional
personal data
SURNAME Fuyushiba, Tetsuzo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 冬 柴 鐵 三 (Japanese); Fuyushiba Tetsuzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Mukden , Republic of China
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 2011
Place of death Amagasaki , Japan