Yukihisa Fujita

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Yukihisa Fujita (2011)

Yukihisa Fujita ( Japanese 藤田 幸 久 , Fujita Yukihisa ; born April 19, 1950 in Hitachi , Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( DPJ → DFP → DVP → KDP ), from 2007 to 2019 MP for the Ibaraki Prefecture in Sangiin , Japan House of Lords, and from 2011 to 2012 Vice Minister in the Ministry of Finance ( Noda cabinet ).

Life

Fujita studied at Keio University philosophy and was the Democratic Party (DPJ) from 1996 to 2000 and from 2003 to 2005 deputy in the lower house . From 2006 to 2009 he was visiting professor at Seigakuin University in Ageo .

In the 2007 upper house election , Fujita ran in the constituency of Ibaraki Prefecture (four seats, two for election) and returned to parliament with 43.4% of the vote. From 2007 to 2009 he was chairman of the Sangiin Committee on Foreign Policy and Defense. In this capacity, he repeatedly questioned the official presentation of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in speeches and hearings in parliament in 2008 and 2009 . In 2009 he was co-author of a book for September 11th ( 9.11 テ ロ 疑惑 国会 追 及 - オ バ マ 米 国 は 変 わ れ る か , 9.11 tero giwaku kokkai tsuikyū - Obama beikoku wa kawareruka ; ISBN 978-4906496433 , initiated by the US President's petition called for a new independent international investigation of September 11th.

From 2010 to 2011 Fujita was chairman of the Sangiin Committee on Financial Policy, from 2011 to 2012 he was Vice Minister in the Ministry of Finance under the Noda cabinet . In the 2013 upper house election , Fujita was re-elected in Ibaraki for a second term, although it was well behind the Liberal Democrat Ryōsuke Kōzuki, but with the second highest percentage of votes (204,021 votes, 17.6%). In the shadow cabinets of Renhō Murata and Seiji Maehara (chairwoman of the successor party to the DPJ, the Democratic Progressive Party, or DFP for short), Fujita was planned to be Foreign Minister from 2016 to 2017.

Fujita took part in the controversial merger of the DFP with the Kibō no Tō to form the Democratic People's Party (DVP) in May 2018, but in January 2019 submitted a request to leave the party and to the Constitutional Democratic Party (KDP) of Yukio Edano . The DVP interpreted this as "deliberately damaging the honor and unity of the party" and expelled Fujita from the party without officially accepting the request to leave. He joined the KDP in March of that year.

In the 2019 election , newcomer Takumi Onuma took over the KDP candidacy in Ibaraki, and Fujita switched to proportional representation; there he received just under 29,000 votes nationwide and was thus rejected in 13th place on the KDP list.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 国民 民主 、 藤田 参 院 議員 と 塩 村 元 都 議 を 除籍 . In: Sankei Shimbun . March 6, 2019, Retrieved May 19, 2019 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ NHK Senkyo Web, election results Sangiin 2019, proportional representation, Rikken Minshutō , accessed on July 24, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Fujita, Yukihisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 藤田 幸 久 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Hitachi , Ibaraki Prefecture , Japan