Yoshiyuki Kamei

The title of this article is ambiguous. The baseball player of the same name can be found under Yoshiyuki Kamei (baseball player)

Yoshiyuki Kamei ( Japanese 亀 井 善 之 , Kamei Yoshiyuki ; born April 30, 1936 in Isehara , Kanagawa Prefecture , † May 12, 2006 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese politician, member of the Shūgiin and minister in the Japanese cabinet .

Life

Kamei's father was the Sangiin MP Kamei Zenshō , his father-in-law was the mayor of Hiratsuka , Katō Teikichi . Kamei studied at the Faculty of Economics at Keiō University . After several years as an employee at various companies, he became his father's secretary in 1968. After running for mayor in Yokohama in 1975 and for a seat in the Shūgiin in 1976, Kamei was elected to the Shūgiin for the first time in 1978 as an LDP candidate and, with the exception of 1983 to 1986, when he was voted out, was a member of it until his death. Within the party, he initially belonged to the Nakasone faction , from 1998 to the Yamasaki faction .

Under Prime Minister Takeshita Noboru , Kamei was State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport in 1979 and Minister of Transport in Ryūtarō Hashimoto's cabinet in 1996 . From 2003 to 2004 he was Minister of Agriculture under Jun'ichirō Koizumi .

Kamei died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 70 . His constituency, the 16th constituency of Kanagawa, which includes Atsugi , Isehara, the district of Aikō and parts of Sagamihara , won his son Zentarō Kamei on October 22, 2006 in the by-election.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ex-farm minister Yoshiyuki Kamei dies at 70. (No longer available online.) In: Kyodo News. May 12, 2006, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 30, 2008 (English).  ( 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.    

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Brief résumé on the website of the Japanese Cabinet (English)