Keiji Furuya
Keiji Furuya (Japanese古屋 圭 司, Furuya Keiji; born 1 November 1952 in Chiyoda, Tokyo Prefecture as Matsumoto Keiji (松本 圭 司) ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP), Member of the Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament, for the 5th electoral district of Gifu prefecture and Minister in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Furuya, the nephew of Tōru Furuya ( Shūgiinabgeordneter, Minister ) and grandnephew of Yoshitaka Furuya (Prefecture Member of Parliament in Gifu, Shūgiinabgeordneter ), was born in Tokyo, but registered in the city of Ena in Gifu native to the family register. After visiting the affiliated high school he studied at the Seikei University, Musashino, where in 1976 he earned his degree at the Faculty of Economics. He was then an employee of the insurance company Taishō Kaijo Kasai Hoken (now Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo Kasai Hoken, English Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance ).
In 1984 he left the company and became secretary of Shintaro Abe, Shūgiinabgeordneter from Yamaguchi and then foreign minister. In 1985 he became secretary to his uncle and adoptive father, Tōru Furuya, then self-government Minister and Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission. To Shūgiin election 1990 Tōru Furuya withdrew from politics, Keiji applied as LDP candidate in the then viermandatigen constituency Gifu 2 about its successor: With the third highest share of the vote behind two Liberal Democrats and before two Socialists, he moved for the first time in parliament. In the LDP, he joined the Abe - faction of his former employer to which he belonged after 1998 until the election of the party leader (after: Kamei faction, today: without faction ). In 1993 Shūgiin - election, he was re-elected with the fourth highest share of the vote and 6,000 votes ahead of a challenger from the New Japan Party.
Since the electoral reform Furuya candidate in the new Einmandatswahlkreis Gifu 5, which he won for the first clear LDP three times. In 2005, he voted in Shūgiin against the target of Prime Minister Koizumi Jun'ichirô postal privatization and had to play in the resulting election without LDP support, the party presented as " assassin " candidates the then 30 -year-old party official Takaaki Wani on. But Furuya defended his position with more than 30,000 ahead of Wani and two other candidates. The end of 2006 Furuya returned to the LDP. In 2009 Shūgiin - election of constituency Gifu part 5 with the constituencies in which the Communist Party gave up a nomination: In a two- candidate race against the Democrats Yoshinobu Achiha Furuya defeated by about 14,000 votes, won with this relatively scarce constituency defeat but a proportional representation seat in the block Tōkai. In 2012, he won his constituency back sovereign.
During the grand coalition Furuya from 1995 to 1996 ( reorganized cabinet Murayama ) Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice. More common in management positions in party, parliament and government, he was appointed in the 2000s: In 2000, he was Chairman of the Shūgiin Committee on Trade and Industry ( Shoko iinkai ), 2002 to 2003 Chairman of the Culture and Science Committee. In between, he was from 2001 to 2002 (cabinet Koizumi I ) Vice-Minister in the newly created Economic and Industry Ministry. In the LDP, he served as Vice Chairman of PARC (2000-2001 and 2007-2008) and Deputy Secretary-General ( 2003-2004).
In December 2012, Shinzō Abe appointed him as Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and Minister for Special Affairs in the Cabinet Office ( Civil Protection ) in his second cabinet, he is also responsible for the abduction issue and took on the new responsibility for Kokudo kyojinka (国土 强 靱 化, about " strengthening the toughness of the country" ), with which the infrastructure activities should be coordinated disaster preparedness according to the same law.