Takeo Hiranuma

Takeo Hiranuma (Japanese平沼 赳 夫, Hiranuma Takeo, born August 3, 1939 at the Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture) is a Japanese politician, Vice- Chairman of the Nippon Ishin no Kai and deputy in Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament for the constituency Okayama 3 As a longtime member of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP), he was a minister in several cabinets and sat Shūgiin various committees before.

Hiranuma was after completing his studies at the Faculty of Law, Keio University 1962 Employee of the textile company Nitto Boseki, where he remained until 1973. His first candidates for the Shūgiin in the then Five mandate constituency Okayama 1 failed: 1976 as a non-party and 1979 for the LDP. From 1978 to 1980 he was Secretary of Agriculture Minister Nakagawa Ichirō. In the next experiment in 1980 Shūgiin - election, he achieved the highest share of the vote in the constituency, where he was re-elected to the electoral reform four times in a row, six times since then confirmed in the individual constituency Okayama 3. In the LDP, he joined the faction Nakagawa of Nakagawa Ichirō, which was later acquired by Shintaro Ishihara and finally joined in 1984 the Fukuda faction. In the 1990s he followed Shizuka Kamei into Shisuikai.

1987 Hiranuma Parliamentary Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Finance, in the 1990s, he took over the chairmanship in various Shūgiin committees ( Finance 1991, agriculture 1993, Rules Committee 1996-1997). In the cabinet he Murayama from 1995 to 1996 as Minister of Transport, Minister for the first time. In 2000, he took over the Cabinet Mori II MITI and remained under the successor Ministry METI and Moris successor Jun'ichirô Koizumi to 2003, Minister.

2005 agreed Hiranuma against Koizumi's postal privatization law and had to play without a party at the elections in 2005; the LDP presented Toshiko Abe as " assassin " candidate, but Hiranuma defended his constituency mandate clear. Unlike " rebels " most postal privatization not later he returned to the LDP and also did not join the new parties of the "rebels" NVP or NJP. For the 2009 election Shūgiin he put together his own group instead of candidates as Hiranuma group. After the election, he and two other deputies a common fraction.

2010 left Hiranuma Hiranuma the group and founded, together with other former LDP politicians Tachiagare Nippon ( "Get up, Japan! " ), Which he then led as chairman. In early 2012, together with Shizuka Kamei announced Hiranuma (NVP ) and Shintaro Ishihara (independent) the formation of a new party, the should also be followed by numerous Conservative MPs of the two major parties for hope of the initiators. In November 2012, he founded together with the Ishihara Taiyo no Tō ("Party of the Sun" ), which a few days later in the Nippon Ishin no Kai by Tōru Hashimoto, the former Governor of Osaka, came up. In the 2012 election Shūgiin Hiranuma defended his constituency against the Liberal Democrat Toshiko Abe, winning one of only two constituency mandates of the Ishin no Kai outside the prefecture of Osaka.

Family

Hiranuma is the natural son of the businessman and politician Kyoshiro Hiranuma (born Nakagawa ), who was with his son Prime Minister Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, a biological great-granduncle Takeo Hiranumas maternal adopted. His great-grandfather Yoshirō Hiranuma was legal scholar and led the Waseda University. His paternal grandfather, Yujiro ( ?友 次郎) Nakagawa, was governor of Gunma. His father was Yoshimitsu Tokugawa Shogun Yoshinobu Tokugawa grandson of the last and thus until the abolition of the nobility in 1947 and a member of the Duke Kizokuin, of the manor.