Yasuo Ichikawa
Yasuo Ichikawa ( Japanese 一 川 保 夫 , Ichikawa Yasuo ; born February 6, 1942 in Komatsu , Ishikawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician. He was a member of the Ishikawa Prefectural Parliament and both chambers of the national parliament , most recently for the Democratic Party ( Ozawa Group ), and from 2011 to 2012 Minister of Defense in the cabinet.
Ichikawa, the son of a Prefectural MP, graduated from Mie University's Faculty of Agriculture and then became a civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture . In 1990 he finished his civil service career and followed his father to the Ishikawa Prefecture Parliament, where he sat for two terms in office for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). In 1993 he joined the Renewal Party of Ichirō Ozawa and Tsutomu Hata . In the Shūgiin election in 1996 , he ran for the New Progressive Party in the new single-mandate constituency Ishikawa 2 , the constituency of Yoshirō Mori . He lost, but was elected through the Hokuruku-Shin'etsu proportional representation bloc, re-elected in 2000 for the Liberal Party and in 2003 for the Democratic Party. In 2005 he lost to Yoshirō Mori for the fourth time in the constituency and, given the poor overall performance of the Democrats, also missed re-election in the bloc.
In the 2007 Sangiin election , Ichikawa ran in Ishikawa to succeed Tetsuo Kutsukake (formerly a liberal democrat, now a democrat), who did not run again. Ichikawa won by around four thousand votes ahead of the former prefectural member of parliament Tomitarō Yata (LDP) and moved into Sangiin for six years . There he was, among other things, chairman of the disaster committee. In the Democratic Party, he has headed the Ishikawa Prefectural Association since 2010.
In September 2011, the third Democratic Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda , appointed him to his cabinet as Minister of Defense . When he took office, he described himself as an amateur in matters of security policy, which is evidence of the functioning of the constitutionally enshrined civilian control over the self-defense forces; the opposition responded by calling for his resignation. In November he stayed away from a reception at the Imperial Court for the Bhutanese royal couple in order to collect political donations at a party event. After several controversial statements in November and December 2011 in connection with the US military presence in Okinawa, in December 2012 the Sangiin passed a "complaint resolution" ( monseki ketsugi ) that was not legally required to resign . In January 2012, he was replaced by Naoki Tanaka (also an Ozawa group) in a cabinet reshuffle . Shortly afterwards he became general secretary of the Sangiin faction of the Democratic Party.
In the 2013 Sangiin election, Ichikawa was clearly defeated by the Liberal Democrat Shūji Yamada . In 2014 he ran again for the Shūgiin, but only in the proportional representation in the Hokuriku-Shin'etsu block on the 14th place on the democratic list, subordinate to the double candidates - hopeless: only two of the double candidates won their constituencies and in the proportional representation the Democrats won three seats.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ^ Defense chief calls himself an amateur. In: The Japan Times . September 4, 2011, accessed September 6, 2011 .
- ↑ Ichikawa must straighten up but can stay: Noda. Okinawa lawmaker in ruling bloc wants defense chief sacked. In: The Japan Times . December 6, 2011, accessed January 13, 2012 .
- ^ Yomiuri Shimbun : Shūgiin 2014 election results, proportional representation, Hokuriku-Shin'etsu, Democratic Party
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ichikawa, Yasuo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 一 川 保 夫 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Komatsu (Ishikawa) , Ishikawa Prefecture |