GenjirÅ Kaneko
Genjiro Kaneko (Japanese金子 原 二郎, Kaneko Genjiro; born May 8, 1944 in Ikitsuki, Kitamatsuura County (now Hirado ), Nagasaki Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) and a deputy in Sangiin, the upper house of the Japanese Parliament for the Nagasaki Prefecture. From 1998 to 2010 he was governor of Nagasaki.
Life
Kaneko worked after completing his studies at the Faculty of Arts of the Keio University in 1968, initially for the fishing company Nihon Suisan, from 1969, Kanai Bussan. In 1975 he was elected to the Parliament Prefecture. In his third term, he laid down his mandate and changed in the Shūgiin - election in 1983 in national politics: In the 2nd constituency Nagasaki ( four seats), the former constituency of his father, he was, for the LDP with the second highest share of the vote in the Shūgiin the national lower house elected. He was then four times, most recently confirmed in 1996 in the newly created single constituency Nagasaki 5 in office. In Shūgiin, he served as Parliamentary Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Public Works and Chairman of the Special Committee on Coal and the Judiciary Committee.
As governor Isamu Takada 1998 decided not to run for a third term, Kaneko won the election to succeed him. He was confirmed with the support of the LDP, Kōmeitō and Social Democratic Party in office in 2002 and most recently in 2006. Since 2005 he is also the chairman of the regional governor Conference Kyushu ( Kyushu - Chiho chijikai ). He announced not to want to run for a fourth term in the gubernatorial election on 21 February 2010. The choice to succeed him 21 February 2010 was won by the former Deputy Governor Hodo Nakamura, who took office on March 2, 2010.
In July 2010, Kaneko joined the Sangiin 2010 election for the LDP in Nagasaki ( a mandate ) and was able to beat the Democratic incumbent Tadashi Inuzuka.
Family
Kaneko's father was Iwazō Shūgiin MP for the second constituency and Nagasaki in the 1970s and 1980s, agriculture and science minister.