Yoshihiko Noda

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Yoshihiko Noda (2011)

Yoshihiko Noda ( Japanese 野 田 佳 彦 , Noda Yoshihiko ; born May 20, 1957 in Funabashi , Chiba Prefecture ) is a non-party Japanese politician and member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , for the 4th constituency of Chiba . He is a member of the Rikken Minshu / Kokumin / Shaho / Mushozoku Forum ( 立憲 ・ ・ ・ ・ 社保 ・ 所属 所属 フ ォ ラ ラ ム ; " KDP / DVP / Soz. Sicherheit / Independent Forum"). From September 2011 to December 2012 he was Chairman of the Democratic Party and Prime Minister of Japan , from 2016 to 2017 General Secretary of the Democratic Progressive Party . From January to September 2019 he was parliamentary group leader of the Shakaihoshō o tatenaosu kokumin kaigi , a parliamentary group that was founded in 2017 around experienced members of the Democratic Progressive Party who were not allowed to join the Party of Hope .

Life

Career

Noda was born the son of a member of the Self-Defense Forces . He studied at Waseda University , then graduated from Matsushita Seikei Juku ( 松下 政 経 塾 , English Matsushita Institute of Government and Management ). In 1987 he was elected as an independent to the Chiba Prefectural Parliament, and was confirmed in office in 1991. In 1992 he participated in the founding of the New Japan Party of Morihiro Hosokawa , for which he ran in 1993 in the 1st constituency of Chiba (five seats) for Shūgiin. He obtained the highest percentage of votes right from the start. Since 1996 he has been running in the new constituency Chiba 4, which includes his hometown Funabashi and which he lost in 1996 as a candidate for the New Progress Party with just 105 votes, then won six times in a row for the Democratic Party from 2000 . In the Democratic Party itself (officially developed with the Noda group Kaseikai ) own faction around him.

In 2002, Noda ran for election to party leadership . In 2003 he was chairman of the parliamentary affairs committee under party chairman Naoto Kan , and in 2005 Seiji Maehara reappointed him to this post.

In 2009, after the Democrats took over the government, Noda became State Secretary ( Fuku-Daijin , "Vice Minister") in the Ministry of Finance under Hirohisa Fujii in the Yukio Hatoyama cabinet . After Naoto Kan, who previously replaced Fujii as finance minister, became prime minister on June 8, 2010, he appointed Noda to his cabinet as finance minister .

prime minister

Noda and Dmitri Medvedev in May 2012 at the G8 summit in Camp David 2012

After Naoto Kan's resignation in August 2011, Noda was elected as the new chairman of the DPJ on August 29, 2011, and Prime Minister of Japan one day later . The formal appointment of Noda and his cabinet by Tennō Akihito took place on September 2, 2011. In the election for party chairman in September 2012, Noda was clearly confirmed in office.

During Noda's tenure, the conflict with the People's Republic of China over the Senkaku Islands intensified when the Tokyo governor Shintarō Ishihara announced in April 2012 that he wanted to buy the islands. In September, Noda's government announced that it had reached an agreement with the private owners to buy the previously leased islands for 2 billion yen (about 16.6 million euros, exchange rate from October 2019). The Chinese government responded with sharp protests; The Chinese Foreign Ministry described this step by Japan as a “serious violation of Chinese sovereignty”, followed by a boycott of Japanese products by large sections of the Chinese population and violent protests.

Another feature of Noda's reign was his planned increase in VAT from 5% to 10% to cope with the consequences of demographic change . For this purpose, the DPJ agreed on June 21, 2012 with the opposition parties LDP and Kōmeitō in the "3-party agreement" ( 三 党 合意 , san-tō-gōi ) on the VAT increase, while there was great resistance within the DPJ. This was due to the fact that the DPJ had promised prior to the 2009 general election not to increase VAT in the coming legislative period. The law to increase VAT was finally passed on June 26, 2012 by the House of Commons and on August 10 by the House of Lords . In the meantime, around the former DPJ chairman Ichirō Ozawa , another 48 MPs had left the DPJ and founded the Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi party on July 11, 2012 (about "Citizens' lives [comes] first").

Noda and Hillary Clinton in September 2012

Like its predecessor, Noda followed Japan's nuclear phase-out , but announced in May 2012 that it would restart several of the nuclear power plants shut down as a result of the Fukushima nuclear disaster due to a possible lack of electricity . In addition, during his tenure in November 2012, Japan first officially expressed interest in participating in the Trans-Pacific Partnership .

After the Democratic Party's defeat in the general election on December 16, 2012 , Noda was replaced as head of government by Shinzō Abe ( LDP ) at the end of December 2012 . The Democratic Party lost three quarters of its previous seats, and Noda resigned as chairman; Banri Kaieda was elected to succeed him. Noda himself was the only member of the Democrats nationwide to improve his election results compared to 2009: He received 4,163,334 votes in the Chiba constituency - his best result since the introduction of the single-mandate constituencies -, in absolute numbers he received around 1,200 more votes than in 2009, and his share of votes improved from 53.6 to 57.3%.

Again in the opposition

In September 2016, Noda became general secretary of the Democratic Progressive Party, in which the Democratic Party was absorbed in spring 2016, under the new party chairman Renhō . However, on July 25, 2017, he announced his resignation in light of the party's historically poor election results in the 2017 Tokyo prefectural parliamentary elections .

After the merger of the Democratic Progressive Party and Kibō no Tō to form the Democratic People's Party , in which Noda did not participate, he founded Konishi (ex-democratic, non-party Senator for Chiba in the KDP faction) and prefectural and local politicians in June 2018 the Chiba minshu rengō ("Democratic Federation Chiba") - in the legal sense a "political association" (seiji dantai) , not a party . According to Noda's idea, the politicians and prefectural associations of the two main successor parties to the Democrats should jointly contest the prefectural and local elections in Chiba in April 2019 , creating a united opposition to the LDP at least across the prefecture. In some other prefectures, too, ex-democrats are trying to set up similar regional parties.

In January 2019 he took over the chairmanship of the Mushozoku no Kai faction (about "Assembly of Independents") after the previous group leader Katsuya Okada had switched to the KDP faction, and called it in Shakaihoshō o tatenaosu kokumin kaigi (about "People's Congress for the Renewal of Social Security "). In September 2019, together with Noda, almost the entire parliamentary group joined the new joint parliamentary group of the KDP and DVP.

See also

Web links

Commons : Yoshihiko Noda  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Finance Minister Noda becomes Japan's new Prime Minister at morgenpost.de, August 29, 2011 (accessed on August 29, 2011).
  2. ↑ 野 田 内閣 が 発 足 ＝ 「党内 融和」 で 政 権 立 て 直 し . In: Jiji Tsūshin . September 2, 2011, Retrieved September 2, 2011 (Japanese).
  3. ^ DPJ re-elects Noda as chief despite rifts. Leader vows to rebuild feuding party, seek end to nuclear power. In: The Japan Times . September 21, 2012, accessed September 21, 2012 .
  4. ^ Metro government raising funds in quest to purchase Senkaku Islands. The Japan Times Online April 27, 2012, archived from the original August 4, 2012 ; accessed on October 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Reuters : Japan is buying controversial islands . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , September 11, 2012, p. 9.
  6. ↑ Japanese plants in China closed due to island dispute. In: Reuters . September 17, 2012, accessed October 16, 2019 .
  7. ↑ nippon.com: The Political Significance of Noda's Consumption Tax Hike , accessed October 16, 2019
  8. ↑ The "gray eminence" opens the fight. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 11, 2012, accessed October 16, 2019 .
  9. ↑ eastasiaforum.org: Noda's confused nuclear policy , accessed October 16, 2019
  10. ↑ Japan will join TPP dialogue, Noda decides. In: The Japan Times . November 11, 2012, accessed October 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Japan's government voted out of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung online, December 16, 2012, accessed on December 16, 2012
  12. ↑ DP's No. 2 Noda steps down to take responsibility for Tokyo election drubbing. In: The Japan Times . July 25, 2017, accessed July 28, 2016 .
  13. ↑ 野 田 前 首相 が 地域 政治 団 体 「千葉 民主 連 合」 設立 国会 議員 は 小 西洋 之 参 院 議員 と ２ 人 . In: Sankei News. June 11, 2018. Retrieved July 16, 2018 (Japanese).
  14. ↑ Japan's opposition parties join forces in bid to counterbalance ruling bloc in Diet. In: The Japan Times . September 19, 2019, accessed October 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Noda, Yoshihiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 野 田佳彦 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Funabashi