Tetsuro Fukuyama

Tetsuro Fukuyama (Japanese福山 哲 郎, Tetsuro Fukuyama, born January 19, 1962 in the prefecture of Tokyo) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party ( Maehara group) and a deputy in Sangiin, the upper house of the national parliament, for the Kyoto Prefecture.

Fukuyama graduated in 1985 from law school at the Dōshisha University and was subsequently employed by the investment firm Daiwa shoken. In 1990, he attended the 11th year of the Matsushita Seikei Juku (松下 政 経 塾, Eng. Matsushita Institute of Government and Management ), 1991 he visited Sri Lanka Projects of the Sarvodaya Shramadana movement, where he was also the founder and the Gandhi Peace Prize Winner Ariyaratne met. Back in Japan, he worked from 1992 on the establishment of regional branches of the Matsushita Seikei Juku with, until 1995, he earned at the Graduate School of Kyoto University Master degree ( Shushi ).

In the 1996 election Shūgiin Fukuyama ran for the ( "old" ) Democratic Party in the first constituency of Kyoto, the constituency of Bummei Ibuki, but wound up a fourth. He then took over in the Democratic Party leadership functions in the prefecture Association Kyoto - from 2002 as chairman - and engaged primarily in issues of environmental and climate policy - he later led among other things, " the Department for action against global warming" (地球 温暖 化 対 策 本部, Chikyu ondanka Taisaku hombu ) of the party.

When Sangiin - election in 1998 Fukuyama occurred in the Kyoto Prefecture (two mandates) as Independent and was elected to the Sangiin with the highest share of the vote before the Communist Tokiko Nishiyama. In 1999 he joined the ( "new" ) Democratic Party in formal, for which he was again re-elected in each 2004 and 2010 with the highest share of the vote in Kyoto. From 2005 to 2006 he directed the Environment Committee of the Sangiin. In June 2008, he was instrumental in the introduction of the draft for a " basic law to combat global warming" (地球 温暖 化 対 策 基本法, Chikyu ondanka Taisaku kihon - hō ), which for CO2 emissions reduction target of 25 % compared to 1990 2020 formulated. This requirement was included in the electoral program of 2009, the Democratic Party, but set after the successful government takeover in question. The bill was reintroduced in 2009 in a modified form, again decided in modified form by the Cabinet in 2010, but are not limited to discussion in the Parliament.

After commencement of the Democrat-led Hatoyama Cabinet Fukuyama in 2009, Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2011, he was under Prime Minister Naoto Kan Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary.