Hirohisa Fujii

Hirohisa Fujii (Japanese藤井 裕 久, Hirohisa Fujii, * June 24, 1932 in Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture) is a former Japanese politician of the Democratic Party and deputy in Shūgiin, the lower house. He was twice Minister of Finance in his country. Within the party he belonged to the Ozawa group of former members of the Liberal Party to Ichirō Ozawa.

After studying law at the University of Tokyo Fujii 1955 Treasury official. For the Chief Cabinet Secretary and Susumu Noboru Takeshita Nikadō 1971 and 1972 he was Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat. In 1973, he finally left the Treasury and moved into politics.

For the election of Sangiin, the House of Lords, 1977 Fujii was a candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ), first elected in national constituency with the 45th share of the vote in parliament. In 1981 he was Parliamentary Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Finance, 1984 Chairman of the Finance Committee in Sangiin. In the 1986 election Shūgiin Fujii candidate in the 3rd constituency Kanagawa (4 mandates), but received only the fifth highest share of the vote. In the second attempt in 1990 to him with the fourth highest percentage of votes catchment succeeded in Shūgiin. After the electoral reform Fujii was from 1996, MP for the 14th constituency Kanagawa. Deselected in 2005, he first stated his retirement from politics, but returned in 2007 as substitutes in the proportional representation block South Kantō back into Parliament. He was re-elected in 2009.

In 1993, Fujii the LDP and joined the party renewal. During the anti - LDP coalition he was finance minister in the cabinets Hosokawa and Hata. After the failure of the coalition he belonged in the 1990s to the New Progressive Party, the Liberal Party and, finally, from 2003 to the Democratic Party. There he was, among others, General Secretary, " Executive Chairman " ( Daihyō Daiko ), and finally from 2007, one of the " Supreme Advisor " ( saikō komon ) and Chairman of the Research Council for Tax Policy ( zaisei - Chosakai -chō ).

2009 Fujii was appointed by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama as finance minister in his cabinet. Following the adoption of the draft budget for the fiscal year 2010 in the Cabinet, but before the beginning in January 2010 budget deliberations in Parliament Fujii explained the intention to resign for health reasons. To the budget - the largest ever in Japan's history - to be able to adopt quickly, asked Prime Minister Hatoyama Fujii, continue to remain in office. On January 6, 2010 Hatoyama Fujii took resignation, however. Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan was succeeded by a day later. A year later, in January 2011, then appointed him Minister Naoto Kan, meanwhile Party Chairman and Prime Minister in a cabinet reshuffle as deputy chief cabinet secretary, in March 2011 as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister. After the commencement of Kan's successor, Yoshihiko Noda as party leader Prime Minister Fujii was one of the " highest consultants " ( saikō komon ) of the Democratic Party.

In the 2012 election Shūgiin Fujii did not campaign and reiterated his retirement from politics.