Keiji Yamada

Keiji Yamada (Japanese山田 启 二, Yamada Keiji, born April 5, 1954 in Sumoto, Hyōgo Prefecture) is a Japanese politician and since 2002 the Governor of Kyoto.

Yamada, a graduate of the University of Tokyo, was after graduating official in the Interior Ministry, for which he worked, among others, in the prefecture of Wakayama administrations and Kōchi. He became a consultant ( Sanjikan ) in Legislativbüro of the Cabinet in 1992. After a short period at the Department of State country he worked from 1999 in Kyoto Prefecture, as Head of the Department of General Affairs, from 2001, as lieutenant governor under Teiichi Aramaki. When he decided not to run in 2002 for a fifth term, Yamada applied to his successor.

The gubernatorial election in the Kyoto Prefecture on April 7, 2002 was Keiji Yamada, with the support of the LDP as well as from most of the other national parties ( DPJ Kōmeitō, LP, SDP and Conservative Party ) against Akira Morikawa ( JCP, New Socialist Party ) and two severed candidates win: With a turnout of around 49% Yamada received well 482 thousand votes, Morikawa just under 392 thousand. Yamada thus avoided an electoral defeat for the conservative camp in Kyoto, which had not elected a governor against an LDP -backed candidate since the withdrawal of Torazo Ninagawa ( 1950-1978 ).

In the gubernatorial election on April 11, 2010 he was confirmed with the support of the DPJ, LDP, Kōmeitō and parts of the SDP against the CPY -based Yusuke Mori for a third term in office.