IchirÅ Kamoshita
Ichirō Kamoshita (Japanese鸭 下 一郎, Kamoshita Ichirō; born January 16, 1949 in Adachi, Tokyo) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) and former Minister of the Environment.
Kamoshita studied medicine at Nihon Daigaku. He was elected to the New Japan Party into Shūgiin 1993 ( 1996: 13 constituency, Tokyo Prefecture). Under Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata Kamoshita was for a month Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Environment. After the fall of the anti - LDP coalition government, he joined with the majority of the opposition forces of the New Progressive Party, for which he was re-elected in 1996. Before this broke up, Kamoshita left in July 1997 and joined the party in December of the same year the LDP.
After working in various committees to Kamoshita committed since 2000, especially in the Committee on Health, Labour and Welfare; 2002 to 2003 he was State Secretary in the Ministry responsible. In 2003, he lost his constituency to the Democratic challenger Masamitsu Jojima, but was elected on the proportional representation list. In 2005 he won back his constituency. Within the LDP Kamoshita belongs to the Tsushima faction.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called Kamoshita in the reshuffle shortly before his resignation in 2007 to the Minister of the Environment. Shortly after taking office Kamoshita was confronted with allegations that he had made false reports of political spending. Abe had already lost several ministers on similar charges. Nevertheless, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda took Kamoshita in September 2007 in his cabinet. In the reshuffle in August 2008, he was replaced by Tetsuo Saitō ( Kōmeitō ).