Kazuya Maruyama

Kazuya Maruyama (Japanese丸山 和 也, Maruyama Kazuya, born January 23, 1946 in Shingu, County Ibo (now Tatsuno ), Hyōgo Prefecture) is a Japanese politician and member of the council house, the upper house of the national parliament over the national proportional representation list the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ).

Maruyama graduated in 1969 graduated from the Faculty of Law, Waseda Daigaku and was from 1970 to 1971 in the immigration department ( nyūkoku - kanri - kyoku ) Ministry of Justice operates. After completion of the " judicial training center ' ( Shiho Kenshūjo ) of the Supreme Court in 1973 he registered as a lawyer. From 1975 to 1980 he was in the United States, where he earned a Master of Laws at the University of Washington and worked in a law firm in Los Angeles. After his return to Japan in 1980, he was further practiced law, with a focus on behalf of companies in international legal matters.

The change in national policy Maruyama tried for the first time at the 1989 Sangiin - choice when he ran over the unsuccessful proportional representation list of Shinsei Club. Later he also appeared as a commentator on news programs and in show programs on TV. In 2007 Sangiin - election, he ran for the LDP in the proportional representation, received nationwide 272,347.455 votes and was thus chosen to Rank 4. In Sangiin he was also a member of the judiciary and of the Board.

For the early gubernatorial election in the prefecture of Osaka after the resignation of Tōru Hashimoto LDP prefectural association Maruyama asked in October 2011 about a candidacy. After he initially refused and the LDP Osaka had already agreed with the Democratic Party and Kōmeitō on the support of Kaoru Kurata as a common opposition candidate against those supported by Hashimoto's Osaka Ishin no Kai Ichirō Matsui, Maruyama said just two weeks before the start of the election period but his candidacy, but this drew a few days later again.

2012 took over the Presidency of the Maruyama Culture and Science Committee of the Sangiin. In the 2013 election he received Sangiin 153 303 votes, reaching the 14th place on the LDP list, which was sufficient for re-election, as the LDP won 18 proportional representation seats.