Yoshimasa Hayashi

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Yoshimasa Hayashi at the 41st St. Gallen Symposium in May 2011

Yoshimasa Hayashi ( Japanese 林 芳 正 , Hayashi Yoshimasa ; born January 19, 1961 in Shimonoseki , Yamaguchi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the Sangiin , the upper house of the national parliament, for Yamaguchi and former defense, Minister of Agriculture and Education. In the LDP he belongs to the Kishida faction .

Life

Hayashi was born in 1961 as the eldest son of Shūgiin MP and later Minister of Health and Finance Yoshirō Hayashi . His grandfather Keisuke was also in the Shūgiin, his great-grandfather Heishirō a member of the Kizokuin , the Japanese mansion.

After completing his law studies at the University of Tokyo in 1984, Hayashi first worked for Mitsui Bussan , where he was deployed abroad several times for the tobacco raw materials department. In 1989 he moved to Sanden Kōtsū KK, his family's bus company in Shimonoseki, and a year later to Yamaguchi Gōdō Gas KK, also a company of the Hayashi family. From 1991 to 1994, Hayashi completed a graduate degree at Harvard Kennedy School . In the meantime he worked as a secretary for his father when he was finance minister from 1992 to 1993. Even after his return to Japan in 1994, he worked as a secretary for his father.

In the election on July 23, 1995 , Hayashi was elected to the Sangiin for Yamaguchi Prefecture (one MP per election), where he served on various committees, including temporarily serving as deputy general secretary of the LDP parliamentary group. From 1999 to 2000 Hayashi was under Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi Parliamentary State Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Finance . In 2001 he defended his mandate clearly with 428,122 of the 739,426 votes cast. In 2004 he took over the chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign and Defense Policy.

Prime Minister Shinzō Abe appointed Hayashi as Secretary of State ( fuku-daijin ) in the Cabinet Office in 2006 . In 2007, after being re-elected as one of only 6 government representatives in the individual constituencies, he became deputy chairman of the Political Research Council ( PARC ) and spokesman for the government ( hittō riji ) in the budget committee. In August 2008, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda appointed him to his cabinet as Minister of Defense . In September 2008, Tarō Asō replaced him with Yasukazu Hamada . On July 2, 2009, Asō Hayashi appointed Minister of State for Economic and Financial Policy in his cabinet .

In September 2012, Hayashi ran for party chairmanship , but was defeated in the first ballot Shinzō Abe and Shigeru Ishiba . He became Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Abe's second cabinet in December 2012 . In the 2013 Sangiin election , Hayashi was re-elected for a fourth term with almost 80% of the vote, unopposed by the larger parties against two challengers from the CPJ and HRP . In connection with whaling in Antarctica , he affirmed in 2013 that it has a long tradition in Japan. And because of this "long tradition and culture", the country will never stop whaling. In a cabinet reshuffle in September 2014, Hayashi was replaced as Minister of Agriculture by Kōya Nishikawa .

At the third reshuffle of Abe's third cabinet , Hayashi became Minister of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology and remained in office until a cabinet reshuffle in October 2018 . In the 2019 Sangiin election , Hayashi won his fifth election with 70% of the vote.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 第 19 回 参 院 議員 選 挙 山口 選 挙 区 （定 数 １） 2001 年 ７ 月 29 日 投 開票 ( Memento from June 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 20, 2008 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 / www2.asahi.com
  3. ↑ Aso adds to Cabinet but LDP execs stay. Same-name pair tapped to fill in after resignations. In: The Japan Times . July 2, 2009, accessed July 2, 2009 .
  4. ↑ 参 院 選 2013 / 選 挙 結果 / 選 挙 区 / 山口 . (No longer available online.) In: Yomiuri Shimbun . July 22, 2013, archived from the original on July 26, 2013 ; Retrieved August 24, 2013 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ http://www.taz.de/Keine-Wwissenschaft/!135863/
predecessor Office successor
Shigeru Ishiba Minister of Defense
August 2, 2008–24. September 2008 		Yasukazu Hamada
personal data
SURNAME Hayashi, Yoshimasa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 林芳 正 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Shimonoseki , Yamaguchi Prefecture , Japan