Hiroyuki Nagahama

Hiroyuki Nagahama (Japanese长 浜 博 行, Nagahama Hiroyuki; born October 20, 1958 in Sumida, Tokyo ) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party ( Noda group), Senator for Chiba and was from October to December 2012 Environment Minister in the government of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.

Nagahama studied at the Faculty of Political Science and Economics from Waseda University, and then attended the Matsushita Institute of Politics and Economics ( Matsushita Seikei Juku ). After that, he was employed in the private sector (including for Bandai, Itochu Shoji ), later he headed the Tokyo office of the Matsushita Institute. In 1992 he participated in the founding of the New Japan Party, for which he moved in with the 4 House of Representatives elections, 1993 Five mandate constituency Chiba into parliament. In 1994 he became a member of the New Progressive Party.

After the election reform Nagahama was voted in the 1996 election in Einmandatwahlkreis Chiba 8. In the 2000 election he won that constituency for the Democratic Party; three years later he was a candidate in the constituency and was defeated 11 Eisuke Mori, but retained a seat on the proportional representation in the block Südkantō. In 2007 he resigned as deputy and ran for the Senate election for one of three open seats Chiba. He received over 660 thousand votes ( 25.2%, 1st place ) and is therefore elected for six years.

After winning the majority in the House by the Democratic Party in 2009 and the resulting government takeover Nagahama was next Ritsuo Hosokawa Vice Minister of Social Affairs and Labour Ministry, where he remained until September 2010. In September 2011 he was appointed deputy to the commencement of the government Noda Chief Cabinet Secretary (political / Senate ) next Tsuyoshi Saitō ( political / House of Representatives) and Makoto Taketoshi ( permanent employees: ). In the third reshuffle of October 1, 2012, he was appointed instead to Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary to the Minister of the Environment.

In the Senate election in 2013 Nagahama was re-elected for a second term: He was in Chiba 388 529 votes ( 16.3% ) and achieved the third highest share of the vote behind Jun'ichi Ishii (LDP, 28.5%) and Toshirō Toyoda (LDP, 17, 5%).