Toshiaki Endo
Toshiaki Endō ( Japanese 遠藤 利明 , Endō Toshiaki ; born January 17, 1950 in the district of South Murayama (today: Kaminoyama City ), Yamagata Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( LDP , Tanigaki Group ), member of the lower house of parliament for the 1st Yamagata constituency and Minister of the Olympics in Abe III's cabinet from 2015 to 2016 .
Endo, a graduate of the Law Faculty of the Central University , was elected to the Yamagata Prefectural Parliament in 1983 for the first of two terms. In 1990 he resigned for a change in national politics in the 1990 general election, in which he ran as an independent candidate in the then four-mandate constituency Yamagata 1, but with less than 8% of the vote was only fifth behind a socialist and four liberal democrats. In the second attempt in the 1993 election , he made it into the national parliament with the third highest share of the vote (18.3%). He rejoined the LDP. Since the reform of the electoral law, Endō has been running in the new single-mandate constituency Yamagata 1, where he was first twice defeated by the reform-conservative former Agriculture Minister Michihiko Kano (LDP →… → NFP →… → DPJ ). In 1996 he won a seat in the proportional representation in the Tōhoku block, in 2000 he missed re-election there as well. From 1998 to 1999 he was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Construction for the Obuchi cabinet .
In the 2003 general election , Endō was able to prevail against Kano for the first time, in 2005 with an absolute majority. In 2006 he became "Vice Minister" for the first Abe cabinet at MEXT . In the LDP landslide defeat in the 2009 election, Endō Kano was subject to less than 2,000 votes, but with this narrow constituency defeat reached third place on the LDP list and thus re-election in the Tōhoku proportional representation. In 2012 and 2014 he won Yamagata 1 with absolute majorities. From 2008 to 2009 Endo sat the House Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. In June 2015 it appointed Shinzō Abe on after Olympic Special Measures Act (full name: Heisei 32-nen Tōkyō Orimpikku Kyogi taikai · Tōkyō Pararimpikku Kyogi taikai tokubetsu sochi hō ) newly established ministerial posts for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo 2020. In a reshuffle in August 2016, Tamayo Marukawa replaced him .
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- House of Commons, MPs: 遠藤 利明
- Office of the Prime Minister / Cabinet, Minister in the third cabinet Abe: 遠藤 利明 (Japanese, English , Chinese )
Individual evidence
- ↑ e-gov law database: 平 成 三 十二年 東京 オ リ ン ピ ッ ク 競技 大会 ・ 東京 パ ラ リ ン ピ ッ ク 競技 大会 特別 措置 法
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Endo, Toshiaki |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 遠藤 利明 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th January 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minamimurayama-gun (today: Kaminoyama -shi ), Yamagata-ken |