Yoshito Sengoku

Yoshito Sengoku at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010

Yoshito Sengoku ( Japanese 仙 谷 由 人 , Sengoku Yoshito ; born January 15, 1946 in Tokushima , Tokushima Prefecture ; † October 11, 2018 in Tokyo Prefecture ) was a Japanese politician ( SPJ → SDP → DPJ → DFP ) and a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament . From 2010 to 2011 he was Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Kan cabinet .

Life

Career

Sengoku finished his law studies at the University of Tokyo after passing the bar exam ( shihō shiken ) early in 1964 and then worked as a lawyer. In the Shūgiin election in 1990 he was elected to parliament for the first time as a candidate for the Socialist Party of Japan in the Tokushima constituency (five seats). In 1993 he received just under the sixth highest share of the vote and lost his seat. He then joined the Democratic Party and was in In 1996 the newly created single constituency Tokushima 1 was re-elected five times in a row.

Between 2004 and 2005 Sengoku was chairman of the political research council of the Democratic Party, in Shūgiin from 2006 chairman of the committee for "accounting and administrative supervision" ( 決算 行政 監視 , kessan gyōsei kanshi ).

Government politician

Sengoku (2nd from right) as Chief Cabinet Secretary in December 2010

In September 2009 Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama appointed him as "Minister of State at the Cabinet Office for Special Tasks" for the "renewal of the administration" in his cabinet and also made him responsible for "reform of the civil service" ( kōmuin-seido kaikaku ). He was responsible for the newly created “Conference for the Renewal of Administration” , which was supposed to check all areas of administration for savings in expenditure. On January 7, 2010, Sengoku took over from Naoto Kan also the responsibility for the "National Strategy Bureau " ( kokka-senryaku-kyoku ), which develops budget guidelines and how the "Conference for the Renewal of Administration" is supposed to reduce the influence of the ministerial bureaucracy . On February 10, 2010, Sengoku handed over responsibility for the “renewal of the administration” to the newly appointed Minister Yukio Edano .

Hatoyama's successor, Naoto Kan , appointed Sengoku as chief cabinet secretary in 2010 . In November 2010 he also took over the post of Justice Minister from the resigned Minoru Yanagida . Shortly thereafter, the Sangiin, in which the opposition holds a majority, passed a "complaint resolution" ( monseki ketsugi ) against Sengoku. In a cabinet reshuffle in January 2011 , Sengoku was dismissed from the cabinet and moved to the party leadership as deputy chairman ( daihyō-daikō ), but returned to a government position after the Tōhoku earthquake in March 2011 as deputy chief cabinet secretary. From 2011 he was under Yoshihiko Noda deputy chairman ( kaichō-daikō ) of the political research council , which was upgraded under Noda, and in 2012 one of the vice chairmen of the Democratic Party.

retreat

In the Shūgiin election 2012 , Sengoku lost the 1st constituency of Tokushima significantly to Mamoru Fukuyama ( LDP ), with his constituency result ( sekihairitsu 66.5%) he was third on the proportional representation of the Democrats in Shikoku; the party only won a proportional representation there. In November 2014, he announced that he would end his political career and not run in the 2014 Shūgiin election.

He died of lung cancer in his home on October 11, 2018, at the age of 72 .

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Yoshito Sengoku, Cabinet member during the Democratic Party of Japan administration, dies at 72. In: The Japan Times . October 16, 2018, accessed October 16, 2018 . 
2. ↑ 衆議院> 第 40 回 衆議院 議員 選 挙> 徳 島 県> 徳 島 選 挙 区 . (No longer available online.) In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures), November 6, 2008, formerly the original ; Retrieved October 11, 2009 (Japanese).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.