Keiichiro Asao

Keiichiro Asao (Japanese浅 尾 庆 一郎, Keiichiro Asao, born February 11, 1964 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Minna no Tō ("Party of all " ) and member of the Shūgiin, the lower house.

Life

Asao graduated in 1987 graduated from the law faculty of the University of Tokyo and was then employed by the Nippon Ginko Kōgyō (English Industrial Bank of Japan). In 1992, he earned an MBA at Stanford University, three years later, in 1995, he left the bank to turn to politics.

For the New Progressive Party candidate Asao, 1996 in the 1996 Shūgiin - election in the 4th constituency Kanagawa, but lost Tadayoshi Iijima (LDP ). In the 1998 election for Sangiin, the House of Lords he was for the Democratic Party in Kanagawa ( three seats per election ) with the highest share of the vote ( 640,463 votes) elected to Sangiin. In 2004, he was - this time with the second highest share of the vote - confirmed. Within the DPJ he belonged to Kawabata group.

In Sangiin Asao include, among others at the Foreign and Defence Committee. In the shadow cabinet of the DPJ in 2007 he was assigned as " the next defense minister ." End of July 2009, he announced his exit party, but the party came to him by exclusion before. He participated in the founding of the Minna no Tō of Yoshimi Watanabe and stood as a candidate for the Shūgiin, the lower house, in the elections on August 30, 2009. Although he lost the fourth constituency Kanagawa against the Democrats Kazuyoshi Nagashima, but was elected on the proportional representation block South Kanto.

Since 2009 Asao leads to policy Research Council of Minna no Tō. In 2012 Shūgiin - election he was able to push through 4 clearly against candidates of both major parties in the constituency Kanagawa - Incumbent Nagashima no longer went to.