Okiharu Yasuoka

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Okiharu Yasuoka (2017)

Okiharu Yasuoka ( Japanese 保 岡 興 治 , Yasuoka Okiharu ; born May 11, 1939 in Tokyo Prefecture ; registered in Uken on Amami-Ōshima , Kagoshima Prefecture ; † April 19, 2019 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) , MP in the Shūgiin , the Japanese lower house, and twice served as Minister of Justice in the cabinet . Within the party, he was most recently a member of the Ishihara faction .

Life

Yasuoka was born in Tokyo Prefecture , the son of the later Lieutenant Governor of Kagoshima, Shūgiin MP and State Secretary Takehisa Yasuoka . He spent his elementary and middle school years in Kagoshima, after which he attended Hibiya High School in Tokyo. He then studied law at Chūō University until 1964 . After his bar exam he completed his preparatory service ( 司法 修習 , shihō shūshū ) at the Supreme Court until 1967 . His next job as a judge at the Kagoshima District Court, he finished after a year to support his father in the election campaign for the 1969 Shūgiin election .

Yasuoka's father was voted out of office and declared his retirement from politics. In the following Shūgiin election in 1972 he himself succeeded his father and was elected to parliament for the first time as an independent in the constituency of the Amami Islands, the only single constituency in the country. After the election, he joined the LDP and joined the Tanaka faction there.

From 1978 to 1979 Yasuoka was Parliamentary State Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the State Land Authority , and from 1980 to 1981 in the Ministry of Finance . In 1985 he became Vice Chairman of the Political Research Committee ( PARC ) of the LDP, and two years later he became Deputy Secretary General. In 1990 he lost his constituency to the independent Torao Tokuda , but was able to regain his mandate in 1993 after the constituency had been dissolved, and initially belonged to the Shūgiin until 2009 (1993 in the constituency of Kagoshima 1 with 4 seats, after the electoral reform since 1996 in Kagoshima constituency 1). In 1994 he left the LDP together with Toshiki Kaifu and joined its Jiyū Kaikaku Rengō ("Liberal Reform Association"), later the Shinshintō . In 1995 he returned to the LDP.

In 1999, Yasuoka helped found the Yamasaki faction. Under Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori he was from July to December 2000 as the Minister of Justice for the first time a Cabinet on. In August 2008, Yasuo Fukuda reappointed him . When he took office from his predecessor Kunio Hatoyama , he announced that he would oppose a bill by the Parliamentarians' Association for the abolition of the death penalty for Shizuka Kamei , according to which a unanimous decision on the death penalty would be necessary in the case of the lay judiciary system that began in 2009 and a life sentence without Possibility of probation to be introduced. According to Yasuoka, such punishment is "cruel" and inconsistent with Japanese culture. In September 2008, Yasuoka was replaced by Fukuda's successor Tarō Asō by Eisuke Mori . In less than two months as Justice Minister, Yasuoka had authorized three hangings, as in his first term. In the Shūgiin election in 2009 , Yasuoka lost his constituency to the Democrat Hiroshi Kawauchi and also missed re-election in the Kyūshū block.

In the 2012 Shūgiin election , Yasuoka won the constituency of Kagoshima 1 back and moved back into the Shūgiin. He then took over the chairmanship of the special committee on political ethics and the electoral law until 2014. Re-elected in 2014 , Yasuoka withdrew from the 2017 election after 13 electoral terms for health reasons . his eldest son Hirotake was to be his successor, but was narrowly defeated by Hiroshi Kawauchi (now the Constitutional Democratic Party ). On April 19, 2019, Yasuoka died at the age of 79 from pancreatic cancer in a Tokyo hospital.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kyodo, Staff Report: Former Japanese Justice Minister Okiharu Yasuoka dies at 79. In: Japan Times. April 20, 2019, accessed April 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Yasuoka rapeseed plan. In: The Japan Times Online. August 3, 2008, accessed August 8, 2008 .
  3. ↑ Minoru Matsutani: Justice Ministry should 'respect' rulings on executions, Mori says. In: Japan Times. October 3, 2008, accessed October 3, 2008 .
  4. ↑ 自 民 ・ 保 岡 興 治 憲法 改正 推進 本 部長 が 出馬 取 り や め 鹿 児 島 １ 区 が ん 治療 専 念 . In: Sankei News . October 8, 2017. Retrieved November 4, 2017 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Yasuoka, Okiharu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 保 岡 興 治 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo Prefecture , Japan
DATE OF DEATH 19th April 2019
Place of death Tokyo