Fukushiro Nukaga

Fukushiro Nukaga (Japanese额 贺 福 志 郎, Nukaga Fukushiro; born January 11, 1944 in Namegata ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) and former minister. He is since 1983 the lower house deputy and leads within the LDP faction of the Nukaga.

Life

After graduating from Waseda University, he worked from 1968 as a journalist for the Sankei Shimbun, which he left in 1980 to go into politics. In 1983 he was elected to the House for the LDP in the second constituency of his home Ibaraki Prefecture and joined the Tanaka faction to, a forerunner of today's Nukaga faction.

Nukaga operates mainly in two fields: the financial and economic policy and defense policy. In 1990 he was Parliamentary State Secretary in the MITI from 2000 to 2001 he was Chairman of the Economic Planning Authority and in 2001 for a month, Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy, but when he resigned due to a bribery scandal. 1998 and 2005-2006 was Nukaga Chief of Defence Authority ( the last but one before it was raised to the Ministry ).

In August 2007 Nukaga was appointed by Prime Minister Abe Shinzō of Finance. After Abe's resignation a few weeks later Nukaga announced first to want to run even for the party and government chair. He withdrew his candidacy but in favor of Yasuo Fukuda back in whose cabinet he was finance minister. In the reshuffle in August 2008, he was replaced by Bunmei Ibuki.

During the bribery scandal surrounding former Secretary of State Moriya and the defense contractor Yamada Yoko in the fall of 2007 allegations against Fukushiro Nukaga had been raised, the denied, however, having accepted favors from company representatives.

2009 took over Nukaga after the withdrawal Yuji Tsushimas from politics to chair his faction, which is the second strongest faction in the party despite heavy losses in the general election of 2009.