Tomoyuki Taira

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Tomoyuki Taira ( Jap. 平智之 , Taira Tomoyuki * 10. July 1959 in the District Nakagyo , city Kyoto , Kyoto Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( Democratic Party → independent (for the lower house faction Genzei Nippon / Heian) → Minna no Tō → independent) . From 2009 to 2012 he was a member of the lower house of the national parliament for the 1st constituency of Kyoto , which includes parts of the city of Kyoto.

Taira, a graduate of the engineering faculty of Kyoto University and a graduate degree at UCLA , then worked as a " talent " for television and radio in the Kansai region. Later he headed a think tank in the construction industry and from 2006 was a lecturer at the Kokudo-kōtsuō Daigakkō, the academy of MLIT , from 2008 an associate professor at the Tōyō University .

Taira switched to politics in the 2009 general election when he won the first constituency of Kyoto for the Democratic Party, which had been in LDP hands with Bunmei Ibuki since the introduction of the single- mandate constituencies . In the party, he joined the Hatoyama group . In June 2012, in opposition to the restarting of units 3 and 4 of the Ōi nuclear power plant, he submitted his resignation, which was accepted in early July 2012. He later participated in the founding of the lower house faction of Genzei Nippon , in November 2011 he moved to the faction of Minna no To . For this he ran in the general election in December 2012 , but was only fourth in the 1st constituency of Kyoto behind Bunmei Ibuki (LDP, 33.2%), Ikuta Tasaka ( Ishin , 22.7%) and 11.8% of the vote Keiji Kokuta ( CPY , 19.8%). On the list of Minna no Tō in the Kinki block he was fifth and also missed re-election via proportional representation. After the dissolution of Minna no Tō, he ran in the lower house election in 2014 without a party nomination in the Kyoto constituency 1, but ended up only in fourth place behind Ibuki (40.6%), Kokuta (29.4%) with 9.5% of the vote. ) and Tasaka (now Ishin no Tō , 20.0%), although, unlike in 2012, the Democratic Party had not nominated its own candidate.

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  1. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , election results Shūgiin 2014: majority election, Kyōto prefecture, constituency 1
personal data
SURNAME Taira, Tomoyuki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 平 智 之 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyoto , Kyoto Prefecture