Kansei Nakano

Kansei Nakano (Japanese中 野 寛 成, Kansei Nakano; * November 26, 1940 in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture) is a former Japanese politician of the Democratic Party ( Kawabata Group), Member of the Shūgiin for the 8th Osaka constituency and former minister.

Life

Nakano, who experienced the atomic bombing of Nagasaki as a four year old and lived in Osaka prefecture from the middle school in the city of Toyonaka, studied law at Kansai University. While studying the Democratic Socialist Party ( DSP) joined. After graduating, he worked in an accounting office and a secretary as Members of Parliament from Osaka Prefecture. In 1966 he was elected at a by-election even for the first of three terms in the City Council Toyonaka, 1972, he was Vice President of the Council.

In the 1972 election Shūgiin Nakano tried to change into national politics and stood as a candidate in the DSP viermandatigen constituency Osaka 3, which also belonged Toyonaka. He reached with around 106 thousand votes only in fifth place at the second attempt he succeeded in 1976 with the fourth highest percentage of votes for entry into the Shūgiin. He was subsequently re-elected nine times in a row, from 1996 in the new single constituency Osaka 8 In Shūgiin he was Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, among others, and in 2000 Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Constitution ( Kempo Chosakai ).

Like most DSP members Nakano took part after the failure of anti - LDP coalition in 1994 at the founding of the New Progressive Party, for which he 1994-1995 the policy Research Council, 1997 until the dissolution of the party headed the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs. In 1998, he was the first and only President of the Shinto YUAI ( " New Party Fraternity" ), before joining it to the Democratic Party. At first he was a Vice-Chair ( Daihyō - Daiko ), then in 1998 chairman of the policy research council, 2002, Yukio Hatoyama, whom he had supported in the election for party chairman in 2002 against Naoto Kan, for a short time Secretary General. From 2003 to 2005 he was Vice President of Shūgiin.

In the 2005 election Shūgiin Nakano lost his constituency to Ōtsuka Takashi (LDP ) and missed with a weak constituency result ( " LGD " 79.8 %) and the re-election on the proportional representation block Kinki. When democratic election victory in 2009 he won his constituency with 115 back to 77 thousand votes. In January 2011, Prime Minister Naoto Kan appointed him as Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission into his cabinet and gave him the responsibility for the abduction issue, the negotiations on the abductions of Japanese citizens by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, and the reform of the civil service. In September 2011, he was replaced in subsequent Cabinet Noda. In 2012, he chaired the Shūgiin Special Committee on the front of " integrated reform of social security and taxes " ( doubling of VAT).

To Shūgiin election 2012, Nakano retired from politics.