Nariaki Nakayama
Nariaki Nakayama (Japanese中山 成 彬, Nariaki Nakayama, born June 7, 1943 in Kobayashi, Miyazaki Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Nippon Ishin no Kai and deputy in Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament. As a member of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP), in which he he had belonged to the Machimura faction in the 2000s, education and transport minister.
Life
After completing his studies in law at the University of Tokyo in 1966 Nakayama Treasury official. From 1975 he worked for three years for the World Bank in Washington, DC After four more years in the Ministry of Finance, most recently as Head of the Minister Secretariat, he moved into politics.
When Shūgiin Election 1983 candidate Nakayama in the second constituency Miyazaki ( 2 seats) for the first time for a parliamentary seat, but reached almost only the third highest share of the vote. It was only at the second attempt in 1986 was the jump managed to parliament. From 1990 to 1991 he was Parliamentary Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Education.
After Nakayama was voted in 1993, he returned in 1996 Shūgiin choice now back in single constituency Miyazaki 1. In 1999 he took over the presidency of the Shūgiin - Committee on International Trade and Industry, he became Secretary of State ( fuku - daijin ) MITI in 2001. 2004 appointed him Prime Minister Koizumi Jun'ichirô as Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in his second cabinet. During his tenure, he promoted the textbook controversy by letting removed for the middle school mentions the abducted from Japan in World War II forced prostitutes ( " comfort women " ) from history books. In a cabinet reshuffle in 2005 he was replaced by Kenji Kosaka.
In September 2008, he received the Premier Taro Aso transferred the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in his first Cabinet. According to Nakayama's first interview as Minister resignation claims against him were loud as he described Japan as " homogeneous". Similar statements had brought other politicians after protests of the Ainu in distress. After the highly controversial statements against the Japanese teachers union, short Nikkyōso (日 教 组), he entered on September 28, after four days in office back.
In the 2009 election Shūgiin Nakayama initially announced a waiver of the bid, then stood as Independent, but lost his constituency to the Independent Hidesaburō Kawamura ( after the election for DPJ Group ). In 2010, he joined the Nippon Tachiagare for which he competed at the 2010 Sangiin choice for country-wide proportional representation; He received 60.358 preferential votes and reached only the fourth list position, but the party won only one seat proportional representation. 2012 was Tachiagare Nippon Nippon Ishin no part of the quay of Tōru Hashimoto and Shintaro Ishihara. For the new party, he ran at the 2012 Shūgiin Choice: Although he landed in the constituency Miyazaki 1 with 19.6% of votes behind the candidates of the major parties in third place; but he could win one of the four proportional representation mandates of the Ishin no Kai in Kyushu.
Family
Nakayama's wife Kyoko is a Member of the Sangiin, the House of Lords, for the LDP ( Machimura faction ) and former Minister.