Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (politician)

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Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi ( Japanese 山口 壯 , Yamaguchi Tsuyoshi ; born October 3, 1954 in Aioi , Hyōgo prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( New Progressive Party → independent → Mushozoku no kai → Democratic Party → independent → Liberal Democratic Party ) and a member of the Shūgiin , dem Lower house of the national parliament for the 12th constituency of Hyogo . As a member of the Democratic Party ( Gemba Group ), he was State Secretary in the Cabinet Office in 2011 and in the Foreign Ministry from 2011 to 2012 . In 2015 he joined the Liberal Democratic Party ( Nikai faction ).

Yamaguchi graduated from Tokyo University's Law Faculty . He then earned a doctorate from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and became a civil servant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , for which he was employed in the People's Republic of China , Pakistan , the United Kingdom and in the Defense Agency , among others .

Yamaguchi turned to politics in the 1996 Shūgiin election when he ran for the New Progressive Party in the 12th constituency of Hyōgo, but was defeated by Saburō Kōmoto (LDP, the son of Toshio Kōmoto ). Four years later, in 2000 , he ran again as an independent and was able to surpass Kōmoto by around 5,000 votes. He later joined the Mushozoku no Kai ("Assembly of Independents") of Motoo Shiina and Masami Tanabu , for which he lost his constituency again in 2003 to Kōmoto. In 2005 he ran for the Democratic Party, although he lost the constituency again, but won a mandate through the Kinki proportional representation block, in the democratic landslide victory in 2009 he was able to clearly beat Kōmoto in his constituency. In the democratic landslide defeat in 2012, Yamaguchi defended his seat with 44.2% of the vote and a clear lead over his three opponents.

In the Democratic Party, Yamaguchi was in 2006 in the second shadow cabinet ("next cabinet") of Ichirō Ozawa shadow foreign minister, later, among other things, vice-chairman of the political research council . In July 2011, he was appointed Secretary of State in the cabinet office to replace Tatsuo Hirano , who was promoted to minister, in the Kan cabinet . From 2011 to 2012 he was State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry for the Noda cabinet .

In December 2013, Yamaguchi left the Democratic Party and initially took part in meetings of the Nikai faction of the LDP as a “special member” ( tokubetsu kaiin ). The Democratic Party responded to his resignation by excluding him from the party. In the Shūgiin election in 2014 he was independent with 47.6% of the vote against Shintarō Toida (without national nomination, but with the support of the LDP prefecture association Hyōgo; the son of the former MP Tōru Toida for the neighboring constituency 11; 26.2% ) and two other candidates from Ishin no Tō and KPJ re-elected. A few weeks later he joined the LDP, initially the Wakayama Prefectural Association of its faction chairman Nikai - the LDP Hyōgo initially resisted acceptance, and Yamaguchi was only able to change a year later.

Yamaguchi's wife is a niece of ex-Justice Minister Shōzaburō Nakamura , granddaughter of MP Yōichirō Nakamura and great-granddaughter of the President of Kōshū Denryoku (later part of Tōkyō Denryoku ) and MP Kunizō Mori .

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  1. ↑ 玄 葉氏 支持 議員 ３５ 人 が 勉強 会 、 グ ル ー プ 発 足 か . In: Yomiuri Shimbun . March 10, 2011, archived from the original on November 30, 2012 ; accessed on June 7, 2011 .
  2. ↑ 民主 離 党 の 山口 氏 、 自 民 ・ 二階 派 へ . (No longer available online.) In: MSN / Sankei News. December 19, 2013, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved February 16, 2014 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sankei.jp.msn.com
  3. ↑ 民主 、 自 民 入党 の 山口 氏 を 除名 . In: Nihon Keizai Shimbun News. January 21, 2014, Retrieved February 16, 2014 (Japanese).
  4. ^ Yomiuri Shimbun : Shūgiin 2014 election results, majority election, Hyōgo
  5. ↑ 山口 壮 衆院 議員 が 自民党 兵 庫 県 連 へ . In: Kobe Shimbun NEXT. February 11, 2016, Retrieved March 2, 2017 (Japanese).
  6. ↑ kingendaikeizu.net: Yamaguchi Tsuyoshi
personal data
SURNAME Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 山口 壯 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Aioi , Hyogo Prefecture