Yoshio Hachiro

Yoshio Hachiro (Japanese钵 吕 吉雄, Yoshio Hachiro, born January 25, 1948 in Shintotsukawa, Kabato -gun, Hokkaido ) is a Japanese politician. By 2012 he was Shūgiin deputy of the Democratic Party (DPJ ), 2011 briefly Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry. Within the party he belongs to Yokomichi group.

Hachiro is a graduate of the Faculty of Agriculture Hokkaido University. He then worked for the agricultural cooperative ( Nokyo ) in Imakane. In 1990 Shūgiin - election, he successfully ran as an independent candidate in the 3rd constituency Hokkaidō and then joined the Socialist Party of Japan ( SPJ ) at. It has since been re-elected five times ( from 1996 in the 8th constituency Hokkaidō, since 2003 in the 4th constituency Hokkaidō ).

Before the election of 1996 Hachiro left the SPJ and participated in the first founding of the DPJ. In 2003 he ran for the governorship of Hokkaido, but was defeated with about 62,000 votes of the LDP / Kōmeitō nominee Harumi Takahashi.

On 2 September 2011, he was appointed to the Cabinet as Minister Noda of Economy, Trade and Industry. On the 9th he visited the communities around the nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi and described it as "death cities " ( 「死 の まち」 " shi no machi "). The day before, he had rubbed and grinned his civil protection suit to a reporter: "Look, radioactivity " ( 「ほら,放射 能」 " hora, hōshanō "). On the basis of these observations, he declared his resignation on 10, and Osamu Fujimura Chefkabinettsskeretär succeeded him on 11 business leaders from.

1996 and 2001-2002 sat Hachiro the Shūgiin Agriculture Committee before, in 2010 the Labour and Social Committee, the Judiciary Committee in 2012. In 2012 Shūgiin election he lost his constituency to the Liberal Democrats Hiroyuki Nakamura. With a sekihairitsu ( " LGD " ) of 66.8 %, he reached the sixth place on the DPJ proportional representation list Hokkaidō and so fail to have a re-election in the block - the DPJ won only two of proportional representation seats in Hokkaido.