Katsuhito Asano

Katsuhito Asano ( jap浅 野 胜 人, Katsuhito Asano, born April 19, 1938 in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan) is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) and member of the Sangiin, the House of Lords, for Aichi. In the LDP he belonged to Asō faction.

Life

Asano, a graduate of Waseda University, worked from 1961 as a political journalist for the public service broadcaster NHK. When choosing 1990 Shūgiin, the lower house, he was elected as an independent candidate with LDP support on the second attempt to parliament. In 1996 he was Parliamentary Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Defence Office, 2000 State Department.

In 2003 he was - after 1993 for the second time - voted and stood as a candidate in the election of 2004 in Aichi (3 seats) for the Sangiin. He received more than 800,000 votes, the highest number of votes. As an opponent of the postal privatization law of Prime Minister Koizumi to Jun'ichirô Asano 2005 included in the first vote in Sangiin, but voted for the law after the Koizumi Shūgiin let dissolve and there drove the postal privatization opponents from the LDP.

In 2006 he became Secretary of State under Shinzō Abe ( fuku - daijin, " Deputy Minister ") in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In May 2009, it was nominated taro Asō as successor to the retiring Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshitada Konoike. The office he held until the resignation of the Cabinet Asō in September 2009. 2010 he was chairman of the Diszipolinarausschusses Sangiin.

In the 2010 election Sangiin Asano did not run for another six-year term as an MP.