Shizuka Kamei
Shizuka Kamei (Japanese亀 井 静香, Kamei Shizuka, born 1 November 1936 in Yamanouchikita, Hiroshima Prefecture (now Shobara ) ) is a Japanese politician of the Midori no Kaze and deputy in Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament for the constituency of 6. constituency Hiroshima. By 2005, he was a faction leaders to the leaders of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) and was twice minister. After that, he was a member of the cleaved New People's Party, which he led as chairman from 2009 to 2012. In the coalition cabinets Hatoyama and Kan, he was again Minister.
Life
Kamei is a graduate of the University of Tokyo. After two years as Salaryman he began in 1962 his career with the police department. The early 1970s, he led a series of investigations into the extreme left, including the violent riots after demonstrations against the construction of Narita Airport in 1971 and after the massacre at Lod airport by Japanese Red Army in 1972. 1977 he left the police to prepare his entry into politics.
1979, Kamei appeared as a candidate of the LDP in the third constituency Hiroshima for the first time for the Shūgiin, the Japanese House of Commons, to. It has since been re-elected nine times (after the 1994 reform constituency in the 6th constituency Hiroshima ). 1994 appointed Prime Minister Murayama him as Minister of Transport for the first time in a cabinet. Two years later he became minister of construction in the second cabinet of Ryutaro Hashimoto.
In the party Kamei initially belonged to the Fukuda / Abe / Mitsuzuka faction, which he only temporarily left in 1989 because he had the party chairmanship support in the election against the collusion of the factions Shintaro Ishihara. In 1998, he finally left the faction with his followers. Together with the remains of the Watanabe faction, which had been decimated by the cleavage of the Yamasaki Group, he founded the Shisuikai. In 2003 he took over the presidency of the faction.
1999 Kamei became chairman of the "Politics Research Council" ( PARC ) of the LDP. In the election of the party chairman in 2001, he renounced shortly before the election in favor of Jun'ichirô Koizumi to a possible candidacy. In 2003 he ran against Koizumi and received the second highest share of the vote.
As an opponent of the planned privatization of postal Koizumi left Kamei 2005, the LDP and founded together with three other Shūgiin and a Sangiin deputies the New People's Party. Koizumi made at the following Shūgiin - election in 2005 the independent Takafumi Horie, then CEO of Livedoor, as " bombers " against Kamei up, but he could defend his seat.
After Shūgiin - election in 2009, as the party chairman and general secretary Tamisuke Watanuki Hisaoki Kamei lost their seats, Kamei took over the presidency of the New People's Party. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (Democratic Party) appointed him as Minister of State for the financial sector in his cabinet. Shortly after the inauguration of Hatoyama's successor, Naoto Kan announced Kamei on 11 June 2010 to his resignation as Minister: Unlike agreed between the coalition parties, the law reforming the postal privatization no longer ending in June 2010 session of Parliament before the Sangiin should election in July to be adopted. However, the New People's Party wants to stay in the government coalition; as successor in the Cabinet Kan suggested Kamei Secretary Shôzaburô Jimi. In June 2011, Kan Kamei offered from the position of Deputy Prime Minister, he refused; conversely rejected Kan Kameis demand for a larger reshuffle. On 27 June 2011, Kamei was appointed Special Advisor to the Prime Minister.
2012 was opposed Kamei against the run of Kan's successor, Yoshihiko Noda increase in VAT and was ousted as chairman of the New People's Party, which he then left. In November 2012, he founded along with Masahiko Yamada, the anti - TPP - party with the Genzei Nippon merged and finally came up a few days later in the future party. For these Kamei defended at the 2012 Shūgiin election the constituency Hiroshima 6 with 12,000 votes ahead of Toshifumi Kojima (LDP ). In the subsequent cleavage of the future party in December 2012, he joined the Midori no Kaze, who is also the former NVP member Akiko Kamei, the daughter of former NVP -General Hisaoki Kamei.
Kameis brother Ikuo Kamei took until 2010 for the New People's Party, the Hiroshima Prefecture in Sangiin.
Political positions
- Kamei refused pursued by Prime Minister Koizumi Jun'ichirô economic policies of deregulation and privatization. It shall be given the weakness of the private sector instead on an expansion of public spending in the short term at the expense of - formulated by the government at least as a goal - fiscal consolidation.
- He calls for a reform of the education system, in which the middle and high schools are to be summarized. He also calls for a greater emphasis on " traditional Japanese culture" in education.
- He is committed to the expansion of Japan's military capabilities and the development of a missile defense system. He advocates a revision of the Constitution, the stakes of the Self-Defense Forces easier.
- He is an opponent of the death penalty since 2001 and chairman of the " Parliamentary Association for the abolition of the death penalty " (死刑廃止を推進する議員連盟).
- It is strictly announced against the introduction of voting rights for foreigners living in Japan at the municipal and prefectural level, as proposed by the Democratic Party and the Kōmeitō, and has for the case of the transfer of relevant draft legislation that his party would leave the coalition government.