Kaoru Yosano

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Kaoru Yosano (2009)

Kaoru Yosano ( Japanese 与 謝 野 馨 , Yosano Kaoru ; born August 22, 1938 in Chiyoda ; † May 21, 2017 in Tokyo Prefecture ) was a Japanese politician . Until 2012 he was a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , to which he had belonged intermittently since 1976. Since the 1990s he was a minister in several cabinets, most recently in 2011 in the Kan cabinet . He was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) until 2010 , within which he did not belong to any political group, then a member of Tachiagare Nippon until 2011 , and in 2011 a temporarily non-party member of the Democratic Party .

Life

Kaoru Yosano was born the son of the diplomat Shigeru Yosano, who in turn was the second son of the poet and suffragette Akiko Yosano and the poet Tekkan Yosano . Yosano attended schools in Heliopolis , Cairo , Spain and Arabia , among others . He studied law at the University of Tokyo . After graduating in 1963, he first worked as an employee of the nuclear power plant operator Nihon Genshiryoku Hatsuden KK (JAPC). In 1969 he became office manager of Yasuhiro Nakasone , a year later his secretary as head of the defense agency.

After a failed attempt in 1972 , Yosano was elected to Shūgiin in 1976 for the 1st constituency of Tōkyō. He joined the Nakasone faction . In 1979 he was voted out, in 1980 he was elected back to the Shūgiin as the candidate with the most votes. During the electoral reform in 1994, his constituency was divided into the 1st and 8th constituencies. In the Shūgiin election in 2000 he lost the first constituency - now a single constituency - to the DPJ candidate Banri Kaieda . He was only re-elected in 2003 via proportional representation and no longer joined any faction. He was able to regain his constituency in 2005 , but lost it again to Kaieda in 2009 .

In the Cabinet Murayama Yosano 1994 was first minister and received education department until 1995. From 1998 to 1999 he was Minister of International Trade and Industry , 2005-2006 Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy in 2007 then for a short time cabinet secretary . From 2004 to 2005, Yosano headed the LDP's Policy Research Council (PARC). In August 2008, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda reappointed him as Minister of State for Economic and Financial Policy. After Fukuda's resignation shortly thereafter, Yosano ran for the election of the LDP chairman for Fukuda's successor and received the second highest percentage of votes behind Tarō Asō . He left him in his ministerial post when he took office as Prime Minister. On February 17, 2009 he took over the post of finance minister after Shōichi Nakagawa's resignation . On July 2, 2009, Yoshimasa Hayashi replaced him as Minister of State for Economic and Financial Policy. He remained Minister of Finance until September 2009.

In April 2010, Yosano left the LDP and founded the Tachiagare Nippon ("Stand up, Japan") party with Takeo Hiranuma ( Hiranuma group ). At the end of 2010, Yosano conducted negotiations with Prime Minister Naoto Kan about government cooperation with the Democratic Party, which his party colleagues rejected. Yosano resigned from the party on January 13, 2011, and one day later he was appointed minister of state at the cabinet office for special tasks for economic and financial policy, combating the decline in birth rates and gender equality, and was also given responsibility for an "integrated social security system" during a cabinet reshuffle - and tax reform ”( shakai hoshō, zei ittai kaikaku ). On January 18, 2011, Yosano joined the DPJ Shūgiin faction "Democratic Party / Independent Club", which he soon left. In September 2011, Kan's successor, Yoshihiko Noda, did not take him over to his cabinet; Motohisa Furukawa took over his ministerial positions .

For the 2012 Shūgiin election , Yosano did not run and retired from active politics.

He died of pneumonia on May 21, 2017, at the age of 78 in a hospital in Tokyo Prefecture .

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Individual evidence

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