Ikuo Kamei

Ikuo Kamei (Japanese亀 井 郁 夫, Ikuo Kamei; born November 1, 1933 Shobara, Hiroshima Prefecture) is a former Japanese politicians. For two terms he represented the Hiroshima Prefecture in Sangiin, first for the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP), starting in 2005 for the New People's Party.

Kamei studied law at the University of Tokyo and, after graduating in 1957 employee of Asahi Kasei. He was from 1983 to 1986 one of the directors ( torishimariyaku ) before he left the company and moved into politics. In 1987 he was elected for the county Hiba in Hiroshima Prefecture Parliament, confirmed in office in 1991. In 1993, he laid down his mandate to run in the gubernatorial election to succeed Toranosuke Takeshita, but lost Yuzan Fujita. In 1998 he moved into national politics when he successfully applied for one of the two mandates of Hiroshima Prefecture in Sangiin choice. In 2002, he was Parliamentary Secretary ( daijin - seimukan ) in the Cabinet Office in the first Cabinet Minister Koizumi. In 2004 he was re-elected as an MP.

As opposed to the privatization of public post, which was operated by Prime Minister Jun'ichirô Koizumi, he supported in 2005 the deputy party leader of the New People's Party, his brother Shizuka, during the election campaign for the Shūgiin - election against the nominees of Koizumi " assassin " candidates Takafumi Horie. In the second vote on the postal privatization law in Sangiin it contained by absence. But his party process of elimination because of the support of postal privatization rebels delayed by an appeal because it had been his own brother, whom he had supported. However, the LDP Executive Council confirmed in December 2005, the expulsion from the party, Kamei came after the New People's Party in.

He became Vice Chairman in the new party, later he also led the Sangiin Group. At the 2010 election he no longer went to and retired from politics.