Yukio Fujimaki

Yukio Fujimaki ( Japanese 藤 巻 幸 夫 , Fujimaki Yukio , own spelling as an entrepreneur partly 藤 巻 幸 大 ; * January 5, 1960 in Tokyo Prefecture ; † March 15, 2014 ibid) was a Japanese entrepreneur and politician and from 2012 to 2014 a member of the Sangiin , the upper house of the national parliament , via the nationwide proportional representation, first for the Minna no Tō , then the Yui no Tō .

Fujimaki studied at the economics faculty of Sophia University and after graduating in 1982 he worked for the department store group Isetan . He stayed there until 2000, after which he worked primarily in the fashion and clothing sector , including for the Seven & I Group and Itō-Yōkadō , and founded his own companies, sometimes together with his half-brother Takeshi .

He entered active politics in the 2010 Sangiin election when he ran as a proportional representation candidate for the Minna no Tō. He received 32,161 preferential votes nationwide and thus reached number 9 on the list of Minna no Tō, which only won seven proportional representation. It was not until the end of 2012 that several members of the upper house of the party resigned in order to run for election in the lower house that Fujimaki became a new member. In the Sangiin he was a member of the Land and Transport Committee .

In December 2013, Fujimaki joined the Yui no Tō of Kenji Eda , which formed in a dispute over a rapprochement between the Minna no Tō and the ruling LDP. Shortly afterwards, he was hospitalized with acute pancreatitis and died of a bleeding shock in March 2014 . Shigeru Tanaka , former secretary of Yasuhiro Nakasone , is expected to replace Fujimaki from Minna no Tō .

Fujimaki's half-brother Takeshi also became a member of the Sangiin in 2013 ( Nippon Ishin no Kai , proportional representation).

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Sangiin, members: Fujimaki Yukio (Japanese, English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 藤 巻 幸 夫 参 院 議員 死去 . In: jiji.com . March 16, 2014, Retrieved March 20, 2014 (Japanese).