Yoshiaki Takaki

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Yoshiaki Takaki, 2010

Yoshiaki Takaki ( Japanese 髙 木 義 明 , Takaki Yoshiaki ; born December 22, 1945 in Shimonoseki , Yamaguchi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( Democratic Socialist Party → New Progressive Party → Shintō Yūai → Democratic Party → Democratic Progressive Party ). From 1990 to 2017 he was a member of the House of Representatives for nine terms , before that since 1987 a member of the prefecture parliament of Nagasaki , before that since 1975 a member of the municipal parliament of Nagasaki . From 2010 to 2011 he was Minister of Education, Science and Technology in the Kan Cabinet ( first and second reforms ).

Takaki worked after graduating from high school in 1964 at the Nagasaki shipyard of Mitsubishi Jūkōgyō , where he was involved in the union. In 1975 he was elected to Nagasaki City Council for the first of three terms. In 1987 he successfully ran for the Nagasaki Prefectural Parliament. Before the end of his first term, he switched to national politics and stood in the 1990 Shūgiin election for the Democratic Socialist Party in the old five-mandate constituency of Nagasaki 1, the constituency of Takeo Nishioka and Fumio Kyūma , which also included the city of Nagasaki. Takaki was elected to Shūgiin for the first time with the third highest percentage of votes and has since been confirmed eight times - after the electoral reform, initially in 1996 for the New Progress Party (NFP) in the Kyūshū proportional representation block, from 2000 four times in the new constituency Nagasaki 1 and in 2012 and 2014 when he was electoral constituency just lost to the Liberal Democrat Tsutomu Tomioka, again only in the block. In the Shūgiin he was chairman of the Special Committee on Coal Production (1998/99), the Safety Committee (1998-2001) and the Agriculture Committee (2004).

After the dissolution of the NFP in 1997, Takaki belonged to the Shinto Yūai , the "New Brotherhood Party", owned by Kansei Nakano , which in April 1998 became part of the "new" Democratic Party. There he was chairman of the Nagasaki Prefectural Association, from 2005 vice chairman ( fuku-daijin ) under Seiji Maehara, chairman of the parliamentary committee under Ichirō Ozawa from 2006 to 2007 and vice chairman from 2007 to 2009 again. Since 2012 he has been chairman of the Committee on Parliamentary Affairs under Banri Kaieda .

In September 2010 he supported the defeated Ozawa against Naoto Kan in the election of the party chairman and was appointed as one of the few supporters of Ozawa as a minister in Kan's reshaped cabinet. The new party chairman and prime minister Yoshihiko Noda did not consider him for his new cabinet of September 2, 2011. In 2013, he took over the chairmanship of the Democratic Socialist Society (formerly Kawabata Group) in the Democratic Party .

In the 2017 House of Representatives election , Takaki did not run for re-election. He announced his resignation in September 2017, the Nagasaki Prefectural Association of the Democratic Progressive Party named Takeo Nishioka's daughter Hideko as the successor candidate in Nagasaki 1 constituency - Nishioka ultimately ran (and won) for the Party of Hope .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cabinet profiles: Yoshiaki Takaki. In: The Japan Times . September 17, 2010, accessed September 23, 2010 .
  2. ↑ 民 社 協会 、 新 会長 に 高木 氏 総 会 で 野 田 前 首相 を 名 指 し 批判 . In: Sankei News . March 20, 2013, Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 民進 ・ 高木 氏 、 衆院 選 不 出馬 ＝ 長崎 １ 区 に 故 西岡 議長 長女 . In: Jiji Tsūshin . September 24, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Takaki, Yoshiaki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 髙 木 義 明 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Shimonoseki , Yamaguchi Prefecture