Yasushi Furukawa

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Yasushi Furukawa ( Japanese 古 川 康 , Furukawa Yasushi ; born July 15, 1958 in Karatsu , Saga Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician. From 2003 to 2014 he was governor of Saga, since then he has been a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the House of Representatives , the lower house of the national parliament .

Furukawa, a graduate of the law faculty of the University of Tokyo , became a civil servant in the Ministry of Self-Government after graduating in 1977 , for which he later worked in the prefectural administrations of Nagano , Okayama and Nagasaki and in 1997 as Secretary of the Minister under Mitsuhiro Uesugi . In January 2003, he ended his civil service career to run in the unified regional elections in April to succeed Sagas Governor Isamu Imoto , who retired after three terms.

In a field of six candidates, Furukawa, whose candidacy was supported by the LDP, prevailed by around 13,000 votes ahead of former prefectural parliament president Iwamasa Miyahara. In 2007 and 2011 he was confirmed in office against only one candidate, the communist Masakatsu Hirabayashi. The controversial topics of his term of office included his approval in 2008 for the introduction of MOX fuel elements at the Genkai nuclear power plant , the dispute over the Isahaya dam in the neighboring prefecture of Nagasaki, against whose closure by the central government the local fishing cooperatives with the support of Furukawa have opposed for years (provisional Opening by the Kan cabinet in 2010), and a scandal over inadequate meat export controls by the prefectural authorities in 2009.

During his third term, Furukawa resigned in November 2014 to seek a move to national politics in the 2014 House of Representatives election . He ran for the LDP in the constituency Saga 2, which was newly tailored in 2013, and prevailed against the Democrat Hiroshi Ōgushi . In 2017 he was narrowly defeated by Ōgushi (now Hope Party ), but won one of the seven LDP seats in the proportional representation in Kyūshū as the best constituency loser .

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  1. ↑ The Senkyo: Result of the gubernatorial election in Saga 2003 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / go2senkyo.com
  2. ^ Saga Shimbun: Candidates for the 2003 gubernatorial election with summaries of the election programs
  3. ↑ Governor opens Saga door to MOX plan. In: The Japan Times . February 8, 2008, accessed April 29, 2011 .
  4. ↑ MOX plan to get Saga governor's nod. In: The Japan Times . February 22, 2008, accessed April 29, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Genkai, Saga grant request to burn MOX. In: The Japan Times . March 27, 2008, accessed April 29, 2011 .
  6. ^ Fishermen return to fight state's Isahaya appeal. In: The Japan Times . July 12, 2008, accessed April 29, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Isahaya Bay dike gates to open. Governors of Nagasaki, Saga disagree over plan's wisdom. In: The Japan Times . December 9, 2010, accessed April 29, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Saga ignored beef export warning. Official took unchecked meat to Dubai. In: The Japan Times . March 18, 2009, accessed April 29, 2011 .
  9. ^ Yomiuri Shimbun : Election Results Shūgiin 2017, Saga & Kyūshū
personal data
SURNAME Furukawa, Yasushi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 古川康 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Karatsu , Saga Prefecture