Banri Kaieda

Banri Kaieda (Japanese海 江 田 万里, Kaieda Banri, born February 26, 1949 in Suginami, Tokyo Prefecture) is a Japanese politician who since December 2012 Chairman of the Democratic Party ( DPJ ), Member of the Shūgiin, the lower house, for the proportional representation block Tokyo and former Minister of Economic Affairs. Within the party he belongs to the Hatoyama group.

Kaieda, as a political scientist 1972 graduate of Keio University, worked after his studies as secretary of the House of Lords and MPs as an economic commentator for newspapers, magazines and television. In the upper house election in 1986 he was a candidate in the prefecture of Tokyo for the Zeikin -tō ( " tax party " ), but was not elected. In 1993 he ran for the New Japan Party in the old dreimandatigen first constituency Tokyo for the House and was elected from the state with the highest share of the vote. Unlike most members of the party, he did not participate in 1994 at the founding of the New Progressive Party and in 1995 chairman of the party of the Shimin League ( "Citizens League " ), which he (former SPJ ) founded and further ex- socialists together with Sadao Yamahata. In 1996, the League Shimin was part of the Democratic Party.

Since 1996 Kaieda candidate in the new single constituency Tokyo 1, which he lost to Kaoru Yosano (LDP ) 1996 and 2005. However, in 1996 he succeeded the choice on the Tokyo proportional representation list of the Democratic Party. In Shūgiin he was also a member of the Budget and Finance Committees, between 2010 and 2012 on several occasions the Committee Chairman. In the DPJ he was 2000 Chairman of the Association of Tokyo prefecture and 2002 Chairman of the policy research council.

In September 2010, Prime Minister Naoto Kan appointed him as Minister of State for Economic, Fiscal, science and technology policy in his cabinet in a cabinet reshuffle in January 2011, he took over the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, which he until September 2, 2011 initiated. Following the resignation Kans 2011 Kaieda candidate in the election of party leader for the succession; he led on the first ballot, but was defeated in the runoff Yoshihiko Noda.

When Shūgiin - election in 2012, with landslide losses ended nationwide for Democrats, Kaieda lost the electoral district of Tokyo 1 to 1,134 votes to the Liberal Democrat Miki Yamada, led with this narrow defeat but the proportional representation list of Democrats in Tokyo and was reelected in Verhälntiswahlblock. After the election, he ran again for the party presidency and won against Sumio Mabuchi.