Tadamasa Kodaira

Tadamasa Kodaira (Japanese小平 忠 正, Kodaira Tadamasa; born March 18, 1942 in Iwamizawa, Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party ( a member of the Hatoyama and ex - DSP ​​groups) and up to 2012 delegates in Shūgiin, the lower house of national parliament.

Kodaira, son of long-time DSP Shūgiinabgeordneten Tadashi Kodaira, was named after his studies at the Keio University Employee of the trading house Tomen (now part of Toyota Tsusho ). In 1972 he left the company and founded in Kurisawa a livestock operation.

Kodairas father was in the Shūgiin - election in 1986 fünfmandatigen constituency Hokkaidō deselected 4 ( the constituency of, among others, Yukio Hatoyama and Seiichi Ikehata ) and withdrew from politics. At the next regular election in 1990 Tadamasa Kodaira stepped to the DSP in the constituency his father and was first elected to the fourth highest share of the vote. He was re-elected five times in a row in the new single constituency Hokkaidō 10 in 1993 and since 1996. The New Progressive Party, in which the DSP was up, he left in 1995 and joined the New Party Sakigake his previous constituency competitors Hatoyama on. During the first Cabinet Hashimoto he was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture. After the founding of the Democratic Party in 1996 Kodaira there was the first chairman of the Hokkaido Prefectural Association. Later, he served as Chairman of the Communications Committee and the Agriculture Committee of the Shūgiin, 2010, he took over the chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

In the 3rd reshuffled Cabinet Noda Kodaira 2012 was chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and Minister of Consumer and Food Safety. Following the resignation of Keishu Tanaka as Minister of Justice he also took a few hours of its provisional items. In 2012 Shūgiin - election he was elected as one of eight ministers in the cabinet from the parliament, his constituency, he lost for the first time since the introduction of Einmandatswahlkreise to Hisashi Inatsu of the Kōmeitō.