Wakio Mitsui
Wakio Mitsui ( Japanese 三井 辨 雄 , Mitsui Wakio ; born November 24, 1942 in Sapporo , Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese politician ( New Progressive Party → Democratic Party ( Tarutoko group , ex- Ozawa group )). From 2000 to 2012 he was a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament, for the constituency of Hokkaidō 2 , and in 2012 he was Minister of Social Affairs and Labor in the Noda cabinet for just under three months .
Mitsui graduated from the Shōwa Pharmacological College in Setagaya and founded the Mitsui Yakuhin KK in Sapporo in 1975 (without any connection to the large corporation of the same name in Tokyo), later the Kōyūkai, a "medical corporation" ( iryō hōjin ) that established several hospitals and care facilities operates in Hokkaidō.
Mitsui came into politics after the electoral reform in the Shūgiin election in 1996 : In the new single-mandate constituency of Hokkaidō 3 he ran for the New Progress Party (NFP), but was narrowly defeated by the Liberal Democrat Gaku Ishizaki and the Democrat Satoshi Arai . After the dissolution of the NFP, he joined the Democratic Party. In the Shūgiin election in 2000 , he ran only in the proportional representation block Hokkaidō and moved into parliament for the first time. In the 2003 election he moved to constituency 2, which he won against incumbent Takamori Yoshikawa (LDP) and defended in 2005 and 2009. In the Democratic Party he was, among other things, Vice Secretary-General (2004) and in 2006 as the "next Minister of Social Affairs and Employment" member of Ichirō Ozawa's shadow cabinet. In 2010 he joined the newly formed faction of Shinji Tarutoko .
From 2010 to 2011 (Kan Cabinet) Mitsui was State Secretary in the Ministry of Land and Transport . In October 2012, Yoshihiko Noda appointed him to his reshaped cabinet as Minister of Social Affairs and Labor. With an income of around 50 million yen, Mitsui was one of the wealthiest members of the national parliament in 2011.
In the Shūgiin election in 2012 Mitsui lost his constituency with 23.2% of the vote to Takamori Ishikawa (35.0%), thus also missing a re-election in the proportional representation block and left parliament.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Website of the "medical body" ( iryō hōjin ) Kōyūkai (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ^ Cabinet Profiles, Noda Cabinet: Health, Labor and Welfare Minister. In: The Japan Times . October 2012, accessed October 14, 2012 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mitsui, Wakio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 三井 辨 雄 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sapporo , Hokkaido Prefecture |