Yōsuke Kondō

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Yōsuke Kondō ( Japanese 近藤 洋 介 , Kondō Yōsuke ; born May 19, 1965 in Washington, DC ) is a Japanese politician ( Democratic Party , Noda Group → Democratic Progressive Party → Party of Hope → Independent) and a former member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the Kokkai .

Kondō studied law at Keiō University . After graduating in 1988, he worked for the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) for eleven years . In 1999 he left the company and ran for the Shūgiin election in 2000 as an independent in the 2nd constituency of Yamagata , but was subject to Takehiko Endō ( LDP ). In the following elections in 2003 and 2005 , Kondō, now as a candidate for the Democratic Party , could not win the constituency again, but was elected via the proportional representation block Tōhoku. It was not until the 2009 election , when Endo did not run, that he was able to win the constituency. In 2012 and 2014 he was defeated by the political newcomer Norikazu Suzuki (LDP), a former official from the Ministry of Agriculture, but won again a proportional representation.

In the Shūgiin, Kondō was a member of the Committee on Economy, Trade and Industry and the Special Committee on Administrative Reform. In the Democratic Party, he was, among other things, deputy chairman of the political research committee, the committee for parliamentary affairs and, in 2006, a member of the Democratic shadow cabinet for business, trade and industry. From 2009 to 2010 he was parliamentary state secretary for economics ( daijinseimukan ) for the Hatoyama cabinet , and in 2012 he was state secretary for economics ( fukudaijin ) for the Noda cabinet .

For the 2017 Shūgiin election , Kondō joined the Party of Hope and missed a proportional representation seat with a more significant constituency defeat against Suzuki. In January 2018 he announced that he would contest the next national election as an independent.

family

Kondo's father Tetsuo was an LDP politician, member of parliament and minister of labor. His maternal grandfather was the LDP MP and Labor Minister Masakatsu Nohara .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 近藤 前 衆院 議員 無 所属 で 活動 へ . In: Mainichi Shimbun regional edition . January 15, 2018. Retrieved March 17, 2018 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Kondō, Yōsuke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 近藤 洋 介 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC