Yūji Tsushima
Yūji Tsushima ( Japanese 津 島 雄 二 Tsushima Yūji ; born January 24, 1930 in Suginami , Tōkyō as 上 野 雄 二 Ueno Yūji ) is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Minister of Health . In his party, he led the second largest faction , the Tsushima faction, from 2005 until his retirement from politics in 2009 .
Tsushima graduated from Tokyo University with a law degree in 1953. He then became an officer in the Ministry of Finance. In 1955 he attended as an exchange student through the Fulbright Program , the Syracuse University . Between 1963 and 1967 he worked as an embassy secretary in the Japanese embassy in Paris . There he married Sonoko Tsushima, the eldest daughter of the writer Dazai Osamu , whose family name he adopted.
In 1974 Tsushima left the Treasury and was elected to the House of Commons in the 1st constituency of Aomori Prefecture in 1976 and has been re-elected eleven times since then. In 1990 and 2000 he was minister of health in the Kaifu and Mori cabinets for a short time . After he had been a member of what is now the Tanigaki faction since his election to parliament , he left the LDP for some time in the 1990s and finally joined the opposition Shinshinto . When this was disbanded, he returned to the LDP and joined the Obuchi faction, which he chaired in 2005.
In July 2009 he announced his withdrawal from parliament for the 2009 general election . His constituency won the second attempt in the Shūgiin election in 2012 by his son and former Secretary of Parliament Jun .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 津 島 雄 二 氏 、 衆院 選 不 出馬 「い ろ い ろ 考 え て」. In: asahi.com . July 19, 2009, archived from the original on July 22, 2009 ; Retrieved July 19, 2009 (Japanese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tsushima, Yūji |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 津 島 雄 二 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Suginami , Tōkyō (city) , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan |