Jun Azumi

Minister Jun Azumi (Japanese安 住 淳, Azumi June; born January 17, 1962 in Oshika (now Ishinomaki ), Miyagi Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party ( Maehara group), Member of the Shūgiin for the fifth constituency Miyagi and former Finance Minister.

Azumis father was mayor of Oshika. After his studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Waseda University, he worked from 1985 for public service broadcasters NHK. In 1993, he left the station and turned to politics when he ran for the Shūgiin - election in 1993 as an independent candidate with the support of New Japan Party and New Party Sakigake ( NPH) in the former dreimandatigen constituency Miyagi 2, but with the fifth highest share of the vote about 16,000 votes behind the third place a mandate missed. He joined then in the NPH and in 1996 was a founding member of the Democratic Party (DPJ ), for which he requests new single constituency Miyagi 5 competes since 1996 Shūgiin - election and was elected six times in a row there.

In the Democratic Party Azumi In 2005, under Seiji Maehara chair the campaign committee. In 2006 he became chairman of the Shūgiin Committee for Okinawa and Northern Territories, 2007 Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs. After the Democratic victory in 2009, he was first chairman of the Shūgiin Safety Committee; In 2010 he took over under Naoto Kan would repeat the line of the campaign committee before it in a cabinet reshuffle Secretary of State ( fuku - daijin ) was established in September 2010 at the Ministry of Defence. In January 2011, he was Chairman of the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs back to the party leadership. Kan's successor, Yoshihiko Noda convened in 2011 Azumi as finance minister in his cabinet. In a cabinet reshuffle in October 2012 appointed him as Noda (first ) Representative of the Secretary-General ( kanjijō Daiko ) in the party leadership, successor as finance minister was Koriki Jojima.

In the statewide defeat of the Democrats in the 2012 election Shūgiin Azumi could hold the only Democrat in Miyagi his constituency.