Hiroshi Nakai

Hiroshi Nakai (Japanese中 井 洽, Hiroshi Nakai, born June 10, 1942 in Changchun, Republic of China (now the People's Republic of China) ) is a former Japanese politician, Member of the Shūgiin, the House of Commons and Minister for the Democratic Party. Within the party he belonged to the Ozawa and Kawabata groups.

Life

Nakai was born five years after the start of the Second Sino -Japanese War in Xinjing / shinkyō in the puppet state of Manchukuo. His father worked for the public Tokujiro Nippon Denwa Denshin (now Nippon Denwa KK Denshin / NTT) on the mainland and was after the war for six legislative periods as a Member of the right wing of the Socialist Party of Japan at the Shūgiin.

Hiroshi Nakai studied at the Faculty of Economics, Keio University. He worked as secretary to his father, and ran after his retirement from politics in the election of 1972 as an Independent for the Shūgiin. In 1976 he was the second attempt in the first constituency Mie, chosen the constituency of his father, for the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP ) with the fifth highest share of the vote for the first time. He was subsequently re-elected 10 times -. Throughout with the exception of Shūgiin - election in 1986 Since 1996 he stood as a candidate in a particular constituency Mie 1, which he won in 1996 and 2009, and in the proportional representation block Tōkai. In Shūgiin, he served as Chairman of the Committee on Trade and Industry ( 1993) and Chairman of the Committee for the relocation of the Parliament and other organs ( 2000).

In the cabinet Hata, where the DSP was involved, Nakai replaced 1994 Justice Minister Shigeto Nagano, who was forced to resign because of denial of the Nanking Massacre. After the return of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) in the government in the same year, Nakai involved in the founding of the New Progressive Party. After its dissolution in 1997, he joined the Liberal Party of Ichirō Ozawa. He became deputy chairman of the party in 2002, a year later after joining the Liberals for Democratic Party ( DPJ ) deputy party chairman of the DPJ. 2007 had Nakai, as well as Agriculture Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka (LDP ) invented information on costs in its annual reports for political funds admit.

After the electoral victory of the DPJ at the 2009 Shūgiin - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama appointed him as Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission into his cabinet and also entrusted him with the responsibility for the abduction issue ( rachi mondai ). In Kan Cabinet he remained until September 2010 Minister. After that, he was until 2012 Chairman of the Shūgiin Budget Committee.

To Shūgiin election 2012, Nakai withdrew from politics.