Tadahiro Matsushita

Tadahiro Matsushita (Japanese松下 忠 洋, Tadahiro Matsushita, born February 9, 1939 in Sendai (now Satsumasendai ), Kagoshima Prefecture, † 10 September 2012 in Kōtō / Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture) was a Japanese politician of the New People's Party ( NVP), Member of the Shūgiin, the lower house of the Japanese parliament, for the third constituency Kagoshima and cabinet minister Noda. He was found dead in his apartment in the Shinonome area on 10 September, 2012.

Life

Matsushita closed in 1962 graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture Kyoto University and became a civil servant in the Ministry of Construction Connect. From 1970, he was temporarily sent to the Foreign Ministry, on the Indonesian Ministry of Public Works, he worked among others in 1973. In 1992 he ended his official career and turned to politics.

In 1993 Shūgiin - election, he ran for the Liberal Democratic Party in dreimandatigen constituency Kagoshima 2, which included his home city of Sendai, displaced one of the two former LDP members, Shin'ichiro Hirata, in fourth place and was taken with the second highest share of the vote Shūgiin selected. In the LDP, he joined the Obuchi faction. After the electoral reform first took over the new single constituency Kagoshima 3, he confidently against Hirata (now New Progressive Party ) won in 1996 but then had to leave to Kazuaki Miyaji ( Mitsuzuka faction ), so he just over the LDP in elections in 2000 and 2003 - proportional representation list Kyūshū was chosen. In 1998, during the Cabinet Obuchi he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture. In 2001 he received under the first Cabinet Minister Koizumi to the newly created post of " Deputy Minister " in the Cabinet Office (until 2002).

2005 Matsushita was one of the "rebels", the opponents of the forced party leader Prime Minister Koizumi Jun'ichirô postal privatization, joined in the resulting elections as an independent again in his constituency but lost and Miyaji with around 92 to 69 thousand votes. After that, he first declared his retirement from politics, but also returned at the insistence of the Democratic Party, which is placed slightly in rural Kagoshima, in the Policy: He joined the 2009 Shūgiin - election as NVP candidate ( with a democratic election recommendation) in his constituency, and won with 29,000 votes ahead of Miyaji. He was then in the new coalition government of the Democratic and NVP " Deputy Minister " in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. In 2012 he moved to the Cabinet Office and also was one of the three newly established " Deputy Minister " for reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. In June 2012, he was appointed as successor to Shôzaburô Jimi Minister for Special Affairs in the Cabinet Office for the financial sector and received as Jimi also the responsibility of postal privatization.

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