Makoto Taki
Makoto Taki (Japanese滝 実, Makoto Taki; born September 15, 1938 in Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party (not faction ). He was until 2012 a member of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the national parliament, for the 2nd constituency Nara and Minister of Justice in 2012 for the second time and third time reshuffled Cabinet Noda.
Taki, a graduate of the Law Faculty of the University of Tokyo, after graduating in 1962 was an official in the Ministry of self-government, for which he worked, among others, in the prefecture of Nara and administration in the Department of Fiscal Affairs ( zeimu - kyoku ). In 1981, he became vice governor of Nara under Governor Shigekiyo Ueda. In 1995 he took over the management of the national Fire and Disaster Management Agency. His official career ended in 1996, when he moved into politics.
In the 1996 election Taki ran for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ) in the second constituency Nara and won with about 41% of the vote. In the LDP, he joined the later Hashimoto faction of the then party leader Ryutaro Hashimoto. After the restructuring of the central government in 2001, he received the newly created Office of seimujikan ( Parliamentary Secretary ) in the newly established Ministry of General Affairs, the successor of the Ministry for self-government; He held the position until April 2001 and again from January to September 2002. During the 2003 election Taki lost his constituency to the Democrats Tetsuji Nakamura ( Ozawa group), but was re-elected on the proportional representation block Kinki. From 2004 to 2005 (cabinet Koizumi II ( transformation ) ) he was Secretary of State ( fuku - daijin ) in the Ministry of Justice. As an opponent of the run by the party leader Prime Minister Koizumi Jun'ichirô postal privatization, Taki announced his resignation as Secretary of State and approved in the "post- Parliament " against the postal privatization law. The resulting general election he stood as a candidate for the New Party of Japan Yasuo Tanaka, lost his constituency, although relegated to third place, but was the only mandate of proportional representation of the party in Kinki. In the new party, he was first vice-president, and later chairman of the Executive Council ( sōmukai ).
In summer 2007, Taki left the Japan New Party in a dispute with Yasuo Tanaka about the manifesto for the 2007 elections councils house and joined in December of the same year the Democratic Party. For this he was able to regain his constituency in the House of Representatives election in 2009. He then became Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, in 2010, he joined the party executive, again in 2011 to the Board of the Judiciary Committee. In September 2011 he was named after the commencement of the Cabinet Noda again Minister of Justice, in June 2012 he solved at a reshuffle Justice Minister Toshio Ogawa from. In the third reshuffle on October 1, 2012, he was again replaced by Keishu Tanaka. After his resignation Taki took over the post again on 24 October of the same year.
In the House of Representatives 2012 election Taki no longer stood for a mandate.