Shin’ya Izumi

Shin'ya Izumi (Japanese泉 信 也, Izumi Shin'ya; born August 1, 1937 in Yoshii (now Ukiha ), Fukuoka Prefecture) is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) and ministers. He was until 2010 a Member of the Sangiin, the Japanese House of Lords, and was within the party of the Nikai Group to.

Izumi studied until 1962, Civil Engineering, Kyushu University, then he was a civil servant in the Ministry of Transport. In the 1992 election Sangiin Izumi was first elected to Parliament for the LDP. In 1993 he moved to renew party, then in the New Progressive Party. After its dissolution he belonged from 1998, the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party from 2000, before he finally returned in 2003 with the remaining members of his party in the LDP.

Izumi was repeatedly Secretary of State, before he was appointed Prime Minister Abe Shinzō in August 2007 in his cabinet reshuffle as Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and Minister of State for Civil Protection and Food Safety. Yasuo Fukuda took him a month later in his Cabinet, but replaced him with Motoo Hayashi in the reshuffle in August 2008.

In the 2010 election Sangiin Izumi no longer went to.