Yasuhisa Shiozaki
Yasuhisa Shiozaki ( Japanese 塩 崎 恭 久 , Shiozaki Yasuhisa ; born November 7, 1950 in Matsuyama , Ehime Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the LDP , a member of the Shūgiin for the constituency of Ehime 1 and, since September 2014, Minister of Social Affairs and Labor in the Shinzō Abe II cabinet . From 2006 to 2007 he was Chief Cabinet Secretary . Within the LDP, Shiozaki belongs to the Kishida faction .
Life
Shiozaki is the eldest son of former LDP MP and head of the economic planning agency Jun Shiozaki . He studied American studies at the University of Tokyo until 1975 . He then worked for the Bank of Japan . In 1982 he earned a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School . From 1982 to 1983 he was his father's secretary in the economic planning authority. In 1986 he left the Bank of Japan for good to turn to politics.
In 1990, Shiozaki was again his father's secretary when the latter briefly became minister again as head of the administration and communications department . After his father's withdrawal from politics, Shiozaki ran successfully in the Shūgiin election in 1993 in his constituency, the old, larger 1st constituency (three seats) of Ehime Prefecture, where he received the second highest share of the vote behind the former Post Minister Katsutsugu Sekiya (LDP) received.
From 1995 to 2000 Shiozaki was a member of the Sangiin for Ehime, before he returned to the lower house in the Shūgiin election in 2000 via the single-mandate constituency Ehime 1 introduced with the electoral reform, where he replaced Katsutsugu Sekiya, who in turn was in the simultaneous Sangiin by-election in Ehime Shiozaki's seat in the Sangiin won. From 2004 to 2005 he sat on the Judicial Committee of the Shūgiin. In 2005 Shiozaki became State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi . His successor Shinzō Abe appointed him when he took office as chief cabinet secretary and state minister for the kidnapping issue . In the nationwide LDP defeat in the Shūgiin election in 2009 , Shiozaki held the constituency Ehime 1 tightly against former television presenter Takako Nagae from the Democratic Party.
The 2012 re-elected LDP chairman Shinzō Abe appointed Shiozaki to one of the deputy chairpersons (kaichō-dairi) of the Political Research Council , in a cabinet reshuffle in September 2014 as minister of social affairs in the cabinet. Shiozaki, like Prime Minister Abe and other cabinet and LDP party members, is close to Nippon Kaigi , who is considered revisionist .
Web links
- Brief résumé on the website of the Japanese Cabinet (English)
- Official website (Japanese, English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shiozaki, Yasuhisa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 塩 崎 恭 久 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Matsuyama , Ehime Prefecture , Japan |