Yoshihiro Katayama

Yoshihiro Katayama

Yoshihiro Katayama ( Japanese 片 山 善 博 , Katayama Yoshihiro ; born July 29, 1951 in Seto (today: Okayama ), Okayama Prefecture ) is a non-party Japanese politician. He was Governor of Tottori from 1999 to 2007 and Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications from September 2010 to September 2011 .

In 1974, after studying law at the University of Tokyo, Katayama became a civil servant in the "Ministry of Self-Government" , for which he first worked in 1980 in the prefectural administration of Tottori and temporarily worked, among other things, in the national tax office and the authority for state land . In 1998 he left the ministry and switched to politics.

In the 1999 gubernatorial election in Tottori Katayama applied to succeed Yūji Nishio . He won the election and implemented reforms such as the publication of documents about previously secret funds of the prefectural police, campaigned for the reduction of large-scale projects financed by the central government and called for local voting rights for foreigners . During his first term of office, the "West Tottori earthquake" ( Tottori-ken-seibu-jishin ) fell, as a result of which he set up a support fund for the elderly homeless and campaigned for the reconstruction of housing financed by the state. Similar to Yasuo Tanaka , governor of Nagano from 2000 to 2006 , Katayama was praised for his reform agenda, but also criticized for his tendentiously autocratic leadership style. After two terms in office - in 2003 he was confirmed without a vote due to the lack of an opposing candidate - he did not stand for the 2007 election. His successor was Shinji Hirai , who was Lieutenant Governor under Katayama from 2001 to 2005.

In 2007 Katayama became a professor at Keiō University , and he was also an associate professor at Tottori University . After the government takeover of the Democratic Party in Tokyo in 2009, he joined the newly created "conference to renew the administration" ( Gyosei sasshin kaigi ; Engl. Government Revitalization Unit , the individual budget items of the central government for public scrutiny subjects). In September 2010, Prime Minister Naoto Kan appointed him to his reshaped cabinet as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications and Minister of State for the “Promotion of the Sovereignty of the Regions” ( chiiki shuken suishin ) . After Kan's replacement by Yoshihiko Noda , it was not considered for his cabinet on September 2, 2011.

Web links

• The Japan Times : Cabinet profiles (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reformist Tottori governor another maverick making waves. In: The Japan Times . March 16, 2001, accessed September 19, 2010 . 
2. ↑ JANJAN, The Senkyo: Result of the gubernatorial election in Tottori 2003 ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2011 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.