Yūhei Satō (politician)

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Yūhei Satō ( Japanese 佐藤 雄 平 , Satō Yūhei ; born December 13, 1947 in Shimogō , South Aizu County , Fukushima Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician, former member of the Sangiin (upper house) and governor of Fukushima for two terms from 2006 to 2014 .

Life

Satō graduated from the Kanagawa University Faculty of Economics in 1970 . He had worked as a secretary for his uncle, the LDP MP Kōzō Watanabe, since 1969 . In 1983 he became its ministerial secretary in the Ministry of Social Affairs .

In the 1998 Sangiin election , Satō himself was elected to a political office for the first time: his candidacy as an independent in Fukushima was supported by the Democratic Party (DPJ). He won the two-mandate constituency with the highest percentage of votes; In 2004 he was re-elected with the highest percentage of votes, now officially as a candidate for the Democratic Party. In the House of Lords he was, among other things, chairman of the Special Committee for Okinawa and the Northern Territories and a member of the Budget Committee.

In 2006, he resigned his parliamentary seat for the early gubernatorial election in Fukushima. The current incumbent Eisaku Satō had resigned because of a bribery scandal surrounding the awarding of a dam construction project in September 2006 and was arrested in October. Yūhei Satō's candidacy as a formally non-party candidate was supported by the then opposition parties DPJ and SDP . He won the November 12 election with 497,171 votes against the LDP-supported candidate Masako Mori (395,950 votes) and two other candidates. On October 31, 2010, Satō was confirmed in office with the support of DPJ, LDP, Kōmeitō , SDP, the trade union federation Rengō Fukushima and business associations with an overwhelming majority of 609 to 79 thousand votes against only one communist candidate, Katsurō Satō. The LDP Fukushima waived its own candidate in order to maintain good cooperation with the governor before the parliamentary elections in April 2011 .

In 2011 the Tōhoku earthquake occurred in 2011 , the consequences of which largely determined Satō's second term in office. In the 2014 election , Satō no longer stood, and Lieutenant Governor Masao Uchibori was elected as his successor .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kingendaikeizu.net: Kōzō Watanabe's family tree
  2. ↑ 福島 県> 政治家 情報> 佐藤 雄 平 . (No longer available online.) In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures) September 17, 2008, archived from the original November 27, 2007 ; Retrieved December 18, 2009 (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 / www.senkyo.janjan.jp
  3. ↑ 参議院> 第 18 回 参議院 議員 選 挙> 福島 選 挙 区 . (No longer available online.) In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures) September 17, 2008, archived from the original August 17, 2009 ; Retrieved December 18, 2009 (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 / www.senkyo.janjan.jp
  4. ↑ 参議院> 第 20 回 参議院 議員 選 挙> 福島 選 挙 区 . (No longer available online.) In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures) on October 13, 2008, archived from the original on July 2, 2009 ; Retrieved December 18, 2009 (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 / www.senkyo.janjan.jp
  5. ^ Opposition-backed Sato wins Fukushima gubernatorial election. In: The Japan Times . November 13, 2006, accessed December 18, 2009 .
  6. ^ Incumbent Fukushima Gov. Sato wins reelection. In: Mainichi Daily News . November 1, 2010, archived from the original on November 3, 2010 ; accessed on November 1, 2010 (English).
  7. ↑ 佐藤 雄 平 知事 が 再 選 投票 率 は 過去 最低 ４２．４２ ％ . (No longer available online.) In: Asahi Shimbun . November 1, 2010, archived from the original on December 8, 2011 ; Retrieved November 1, 2010 (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 / mytown.asahi.com
personal data
SURNAME Satō, Yūhei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 佐藤 雄 平 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Shimogō , Minami-Aizu County , Fukushima Prefecture