Yūichirō Hata

Yūichirō Hata

Yūichirō Hata ( Japanese 羽 田 雄 一郎 , Hata Yūichirō ; born July 29, 1967 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( Democratic Party ( Hata Group ) → Democratic Progressive Party → Democratic People's Party ), since 1999 a member of the Sangiin , the upper house of the Japanese Parliament, for Nagano Prefecture and former Minister in MLIT .

Hata, the eldest son of MP Tsutomu Hata and former Prime Minister and grandson of MP Bushirō Hata , studied education at Tamagawa University and is hoikushi , a state-certified educator for young children. He then worked for the Itōchū Foundation of the Itōchū Shōji retail group .

In 1999, Hata stood as a DPJ candidate in the Nagano by-election for the late Maki Murasawa and prevailed against former prefectural parliamentarian Ken'ichirō Fukasawa ( LDP ) and two left-wing candidates from the SDP and KPJ . In the regular elections in 2001 , 2007 and 2013 he was confirmed in office alongside Hiromi Yoshida (LDP). In the Shūgiin election in 2012 in December, Hata initially planned to run for the successor of his father in the 3rd constituency of Nagano, but then followed the party line to not support "hereditary candidates" and remained a member of the Sangiin. In the 2019 Sangiin election , Nagano became a single-seat constituency, Hiromi Yoshida no longer stood as a candidate; Hata clearly won with around 55% against the former LDP Shūgiin MP Yutaka Komatsu .

In Yoshihiko Noda's last two cabinet reshuffles , Hata was Minister of Land and Transport from June to December 2012. In 2013 he led the Sangiin special committee for Okinawa and the dispute over the "Northern Territories" / South Kuril Islands, from 2005 to 2006 and again since 2018 he has been chairman of the committee for land, infrastructure and transport. From 2013 to 2015 he was Secretary General of the House of Lords Democrats, and also from 2017 to 2018 for the Progressive Democrats.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Sangiin: Member Profile ( Japanese , English )