Keishu Tanaka
Keishu Tanaka (Japanese田中 庆 秋, Tanaka Keishu; born March 6, 1938 in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party (Ex - DSP group). He was intermittently from 1983 to 2012 deputy in Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament, from Kanagawa. In 2012 he was Minister of Justice in the reshuffled Cabinet Noda for several weeks.
Tanaka graduated in 1960 graduated from the faculty of engineering of the Tōkai University and in 1961 an employee of Koito Kōgyō (now AI Holdings) in Yokohama ( Kanagawa ), where he was active in the union. In politics, he joined in the parliamentary elections in Kanagawa in 1971, where he was elected for the first of three consecutive legislatures to Parliament Prefecture.
In the 1983 election Shūgiin Tanaka moved into national politics: For the Democratic Socialist Party ( DSP), he was a candidate in the constituency viermandatigen Kanagawa 4 as a successor to the deceased DSP deputies Takamochi Takahashi. With the third highest share of the vote he moved into Shūgiin and was re-elected in 1986. In the 1990 election nominated Liberal Democratic Party and the Socialist Party of Japan two instead of one candidate in the 4th constituency Kanagawa; Tanaka scored only the sixth-highest share of votes and was eliminated from the Parliament. In 1993 the constituency was indeed increased to five mandates, but he again received only the sixth-highest share of the vote.
Like most DSP members joined Tanaka 1994, the New Progressive Party ( NFP ) at, for which he took five after the electoral reform in the new Einmandatswahlkreis Kanagawa. In the 1996 election Shūgiin he moved against a Liberal Democrat, a Democrat and a Communist re- enter parliament. After the dissolution of the NFP he came 1998 on the " New Brüderlichkeitspartei " of Kansei Nakano to the Democratic Party. For this he was able to defend his constituency in 2000, 2003 and 2009 - only for the " postal privatization election " in 2005, he defeated the Liberal Democrats Manabu Sakai and missed with a weak constituency result of a re-election by proportional representation block. Within the Democratic Party, he is one of the leaders of the politicians Kawabata group, the faction to former DSP members, in which he also leads the formal chairmanship since 2005.
After the Democratic election victory 2009 Tanaka took over the Presidency of the Cabinet Committee of Shūgiin, 2010 the chair of the Economic Committee. In 2011 he was one of the vice chairmen of the party under the new leader Yoshihiko Noda. On 1 October 2012, he was in a reshuffle of the party leadership and cabinet successor of Makoto Taki as Minister of Justice and also received the responsibility for the " abduction issue ". Shortly after he took office as Minister a ( prohibited in principle ) political donation from a foreigner and that he had arranged the marriage of a yakuza gang leaders 30 years ago were public. Just three weeks after his appointment as justice minister, he resigned from his office, officially for "health reasons ".
In 2012 Shūgiin choice Tanaka was voted out: The constituency Kanagawa 5 he lost with 11.5% as the fourth- placed candidate knocked on Manabu Sakai, on the proportional list of the Democrats in South Kantō he landed so on the 24th, fourth last place - at four proportional representation mandates for the party.