Kamon Iizumi

Iizumi Kamon (Japanese饭 泉 嘉 门, Iizumi Kamon, born July 29, 1960 in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture) is a Japanese politician and since 2003 the Governor Tokushima Prefecture.

Iizumi, graduate of the Law Faculty of the University of Tokyo, was after his graduation in 1984 an official in the Jichi - shō, the " Ministry of self-government " of which he was sent, among others, in the prefecture administrations of Nigata, Yamanashi and Saitama as well as in the Ministry of Postal Services. In 2001, he finally came from the successor Ministry Somu - shō as a department manager in the prefectural government of Tokushima. He remained there until 2003, when he ended his official career and after the vote of no confidence Prefecture Parliament against the ex- Social Democrats Tadashi Ōta, since 2002 after a surprising victory center-left -supported governor of the "conservative kingdom" Tokushima, at the elections in May 2003 to compete.

Iizumis candidacy was supported by the Liberal Democratic Party and Kōmeitō, he received approximately 206,000 votes and was thus more than 8,000 votes ahead of Governor Ōta, he still broke it off in May 2003. 2007 and 2011, as the gubernatorial election was conducted in unified regional elections in April, Iizumi was confirmed in each case only against the JCP candidate Chiyoko Yamamoto in office.