Sakihito Ozawa

Sakihito Ozawa (Japanese小 沢 鋭 仁, Ozawa Sakihito; born May 31, 1954 in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Nippon Ishin no Kai, deputy in Shūgiin, the lower house, and former Minister of the Environment.

Ozawa graduated in 1978 graduated from the Law Faculty of Tokyo University, and then studied at the Institute economist Yukio Noguchi and Eisuke Sakakibara and completed graduate studies at the University of Saitama (now Seisaku Kenkyu Daigakuin Daigaku ). From 1981 he worked for the Tōkyō Ginko ( engl. The Bank of Tokyo ). From 1983, he headed a political planning office of Takujirō Hamada, a Shūgiin MPs of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP).

In 1992, Ozawa joined the New Japan Party of Morihiro Hosokawa, for which he was first elected in 1993 as deputy Shūgiin choice. After the failure of the anti - LDP coalition in 1994, he left the New Japan Party and ( " Wind of Democracy" ), the New Party Sakigake joined the Group Minshu no Kaze at. From 1996 he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In Shūgiin Ozawa led among others in 2004 the Environment Committee. His constituency, the first constituency Yamanashi, he won four times in a row from 2000. In the Democratic Party, he served as Deputy Secretary General and Chairman of the Mobilization Committee ( kokumin -undo -kai ).

After the Democratic victory in 2009 appointed him to the party chairman and Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama as environment minister in his cabinet. Ozawa was so responsible with the implementation of the output of Hatoyama CO2 reduction target of 25 % by 2020. Hatoyama's successor, Naoto Kan initially took him into his cabinet, then replaced him with Ryu Matsumoto in a cabinet reshuffle in September 2010.

In November 2012, Ozawa left the Democratic Party and the Nippon Ishin no Kai joined by Shintaro Ishihara and Tōru Hashimoto. For the new party, he lost in the 2012 election Shūgiin Although the constituency Yamanashi 1 with 20,000 votes behind the Liberal Democrat Noriko Miyagawa; because he was alone but set before the other constituency candidates on the list # 1 on the Ishin no Kai in Südkantō, he was certain re-elected by proportional representation block where the party won five seats.