Yūji Yamamoto

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Yūji Yamamoto

Yūji Yamamoto ( Japanese 山 本 有 二 , Yamamoto Yūji ; born May 11, 1952 in Kōchi , Kōchi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives , the lower house of the national parliament , for the proportional constituency Shikoku and former Minister of Land, Forest - and fishing industries (2016–2017) and for the financial sector (2006–2007). He belongs to the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), including the Ishiba faction .

Yamamoto, a law graduate from Waseda University , first became a lawyer. In 1985 he ran successfully for the parliament of Kōchi-ken, to which he only belonged until 1987. He switched to national politics in the 1990 House of Representatives election when he ran for the LDP in the then SNTV five-mandate constituency of Kōchi (at that time one of the prefecture-wide constituencies, zenken-ku ), in which several incumbents no longer ran in 1990. He was elected with the third highest percentage of votes (13.3%) behind Masanori Gotō ( SPJ ) and Gen Nakatani (LDP), re-elected in 1993 with the fifth highest. In 1996, during the grand coalition, Yamamoto was parliamentary state secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Local Government for the first Hashimoto cabinet . After the electoral reform, Yamamoto ran since 1996, initially in the new single-mandate constituency Kōchi 3, which he won six times in a row, after its abolition in the 2014 election in the new constituency 2, which he won in 2014 with an absolute majority. In 2017 he was relatively clearly defeated by 43.5% of the votes to the former Democratic Senator Hajime Hirota (56.5%), who was running for no party nomination, but won the third (and last) LDP seat in the proportional representation in Shikoku.

From the 2000s on in particular, Yamamoto increasingly took on leadership positions in parliament, party and government: in the House of Representatives he was chairman of several committees (Economy & Industry 2001-02, Justice 2002-03, Disciplinary Committee 2010-12, Budget Committee 2012-13), from 1999 to 2000 for the reorganized Obuchi cabinet parliamentary state secretary ( daijinseimukan ) in the justice ministry , for the second cabinet Koizumi 2003-04 state secretary / "vice minister" ( fukudaijin ) in the finance ministry , in the LDP then vice-chairman in the parliamentary business committee, from 2005 chairman of the LDP-prefecture and finally from 2006 to 2007 for the first time minister in the first cabinet Shinzō Abe , in which he was appointed as minister responsible for the financial sector for special tasks at the cabinet office.

In August 2016, Abe appointed him Minister of Agriculture in a cabinet reshuffle . When he was remodeled again in August 2017, he was replaced by Ken Saitō .

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  1. ↑ 第 ３ 次 安 倍 再 改造 内閣> 【農林 水産】 山 本 有 二 氏 . In: nikkei.com . August 4, 2016, Retrieved November 10, 2016 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ 山 本 有 二元 金融 担当 相 が 農 水 相 で 入閣 へ . In: Sankei News . August 3, 2016, Retrieved November 10, 2016 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 「首相 に よ る 石 破 派 分 断 だ」 農 水 相 に 山 本 氏 を 一 本 釣 り . In: Asahi Shimbun Digital. August 4, 2016, Retrieved November 10, 2016 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ 高 知 2 区 の 山 本 有 二 氏 が 農林 水産 大臣 石 破 氏 へ 牽制 論 を 否定 . (No longer available online.) In: Kōchi Shimbun . August 4, 2016, archived from the original on August 5, 2016 ; Retrieved November 10, 2016 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , House Election Results 2017: Kōchi & Shikoku proportional representation
personal data
SURNAME Yamamoto, Yūji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 山 本 有 二 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kōchi , Kōchi Prefecture