Yoshitaka ShindÅ
Yoshitaka Shindo (Japanese新 藤 义 孝, Shindo Yoshitaka; born January 20, 1958 in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( Nukaga faction ), Member of the Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament, and since 2012 Minister for general Affairs ( Interior Minister ) in the second cabinet Abe.
Shindo, a graduate of Meiji University and previously of the connected high school, first worked in the Municipality of Kawaguchi. In the unified regional elections in April 1991, he was elected to the city council of Kawaguchi. In 1996 Shūgiin election he tried to change into national policies: he was defeated in the second constituency Saitama grown by almost 400 votes Katsuyuki Ishida ( NFP ), but won a mandate proportional representation in block North Kantō. The constituency he won in the elections 2000, 2005 and 2012. In 2003 he was defeated Ishida clearly and retired from the Parliament, 2009, he again won a proportional electoral mandate.
Under the Cabinet Koizumi was Shindo parliamentary secretary in the interior and the Foreign Ministry. From 2007 to 2008 he was among the cabinets Abe and Fukuda " Deputy Minister " in the Ministry of Economy. In 2011 he took over the presidency of the Shūgiin Committee for billing and administrative supervision ( kessan Gyosei - Kanshi ). In the LDP, he is Chairman of the Association of Saitama Prefecture.
In July 2011, Shindo was one of a group of originally four, eventually three ( Katsuei Hirasawa said the journey from short term ) national deputies of the LDP, who wanted to travel to Ulleungdo in the Republic of Korea to demonstrate its view that the nearby Liancourt - Rock of the Republic " illegally occupied " Japanese territory were. The deputies were denied entry into Seoul. The other two passengers were Masahisa Satō ( Nukaga faction ) and Tomomi Inada ( Machimura faction ).