Kazuyoshi Kaneko

Kazuyoshi Kaneko (Japanese金子 一 义, Kazuyoshi Kaneko, born December 20, 1942 in Gifu Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP), a member of the Shūgiin, the lower house, and former ministers. Within the LDP, he belongs to the Koga faction.

Life

Kaneko is the eldest son of Shūgiin MPs and Minister of Finance Ippei Kaneko. He studied economics at Keio University he graduated in 1966. First Kaneko pursued a career in the private sector until 1986 he worked for the KK Nippon Ginko Chōki Shin'yō ( engl. The Long - Term Credit Bank of Japan, Ltd.)..

After the withdrawal of his father from politics, he ran successfully for the Shūgiin - election in 1986 for its successor in the second constituency Gifu (4 seats). In the LDP, he joined the Miyazawa faction, who had already consulted his father. After the 1994 reform constituency Kaneko was twice (1996 and 2003) on the proportional representation block Tōkai re-elected four times in Einzelwahkreis Gifu 4, which he last won in 2012 against Masato Imai (Nippon Ishin no Kai ).

In the LDP Kaneko 1990 was Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs and three times - 1995, 2000 and 2001 - Deputy Secretary-General. In 1991 he was Parliamentary Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Construction. From 1996 to 1998 and again from 2006 to 2010 he was chairman of the LDP Gifu.

In the " Katō Rebellion " in 2000 against the Prime Minister and party leader Yoshirō Mori Kaneko was one of the deputies, who remained his faithful Faktionsvorsitzenden Katō and contained by its absence in the no-confidence vote against Mori.

From 2003 to 2004, Kaneko was as Minister of State for Deregulation in the Cabinet for the first time at a Koizumi Cabinet. On 29 September 2008 Prime Minister Taro Aso, appointed him as successor to the retiring Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Nariaki Nakayama in his cabinet, where he remained until retirement in September 2009.