Yōichi Miyazawa

Yōichi Miyazawa, 2008

Yōichi Miyazawa ( Japanese 宮 澤 洋 一 , Miyazawa Yōichi ; born April 24, 1950 in Fukuyama , Hiroshima Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), member of the Sangiin for Hiroshima and was Minister of Economic Affairs in the second and third cabinets from 2014 to 2015 Abe . In the LDP he belongs to the Kishida faction .

Miyazawa graduated from Tokyo University in 1974 with a law degree and then became an official in the Treasury Department . From 1976 he studied at Harvard University , where he earned an MPA . In 1992 he became chief secretary of the prime minister, his uncle Kiichi Miyazawa . In 1993 he ended his civil service career.

In January 1994, Miyazawa became his uncle's political secretary. When he gave up his constituency for the Shūgiin , the 7th constituency of Hiroshima in 2000 , and moved to the proportional representation block, he succeeded it. Miyazawa won the constituency clearly against the Democrat Toshimasa Yamada and moved into the Shūgiin for the first of three legislative terms. There he was a member of the Foreign Affairs and Social and Health Committee. In 2008, he was State Secretary ( fuku-daijin , "Vice Minister") in the cabinet office in the restructured Fukuda cabinet . In the Shūgiin election in 2009 he missed re -election against Takashi Wada .

In the 2010 Sangiin election , Miyazawa ran in his home prefecture of Hiroshima, received over half a million votes and is thus elected as a Sangiin MP for six years. In October 2014, he succeeded the resigned Yūko Obuchi (Shūgiin, Gunma, Nukaga faction) as Minister of Economy and Industry and Minister at the Cabinet Office for the Organization for Nuclear Power Compensation.

family

Miyazawa's father Hiroshi was LDP MP in Sangiin for Hiroshima, Justice Minister and Governor of Hiroshima, his uncle Kiichi was LDP MP in Shūgiin, party leader and prime minister, and his grandfather Yutaka Shūgiin MP and State Secretary in the Ministry of Railways. His cousin Hiroo is married to a granddaughter of the Bridgestone founder Ishibashi , through whom Miyazawa is also related to the families of Prime Ministers Hatoyama and Ikeda , thus also to the current MPs Yukio Hatoyama , Kunio Hatoyama and Minoru Terada . Miyazawa's maternal grandfather was Shūgiin MP Masaki Kishida , whose grandson Fumio is LDP Shūgiin MP for the constituency of Hiroshima 1 (parts of Hiroshima City ) and has been leading the former Miyazawa faction since 2012.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Sangiin: MPs page ( Japanese , English )