Kenji Yamaoka

Kenji Yamaoka (Japanese山冈 贤 次, Yamaoka Kenji, born April 25, 1943 in Tochigi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the party Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi, Member of the Shūgiin for the 4th constituency Tochigi and former Chairman of the National Commission for Public Safety.

Yamaoka, a graduate of the Faculty of Law, Keio University, after graduating worked for the Yasuda Life Insurance and as secretary for the writer Sōhachi Yamaoka, whose family name he took. In the 1983 election Sangiin Yamaoka approached via the newly created proportional representation for the Liberal Democratic Party and was elected to List No. 14, 1989 re-elected for another six years. He initially joined the Fukuda faction, after the death of Fukuda's successor Shintaro Abe in 1991, he was one of the founders of Katō group of Mutsuki Katō. In 1987 he was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Finance in 1990.

In 1993, Yamaoka successfully into Shūgiin when he scored the third highest 2 votes share in fünfmandatigen constituency Tochigi. In 1994 he left together with Mutsuki Katō the Liberal Democratic Party and joined the Revival Party, in the following years he followed Ichirō Ozawa from the New Progressive Party in the Liberal Party and was from 2003 a member of the Democratic Party, that the Ozawa group. For the New Progressive Party after he lost the electoral reform in 1996 the new Einmandatswahlkreis Tochigi 4 to Tsutomu Satō. In 2000, he returned for the Liberal Party on the proportional representation block North Kantō back to Shūgiin, there was re-elected in 2003 and 2005. In the Democratic election victory in 2009 he won ahead of Satō first time his constituency with around 30 thousand votes.

Yamaoka has held various positions on the board already in the New Progressive Party, the Liberal Party from 2000, he was Chairman of the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs. In the Democratic Party, he served as Vice Chairman in 2005 and 2010 ( fuku - Daihyō ) and 2007 Chairman of the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs. In September 2011, the new chairman Yoshihiko Noda appointed him as Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, Minister for consumers, food safety and the abductions of Japanese citizens by the DPRK in his cabinet. In December 2012, the Sangiin adopted with the local opposition majority a " Rügeresolution ," a non-binding motion of censure against Yamoka after he was criticized for connections to and donations from companies that were involved in multi-level marketing schemes and pyramid schemes. In a cabinet reshuffle in January 2012, he was replaced by Jin Matsubara.

In summer 2012, Yamaoka voted against the bill to double the tax and filed along with 49 other Democrats to Ichirō Ozawa 's party leaving one, which was answered by the party leadership with exclusion. He joined Ozawa Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi, where he took over as Daihyō - Daiko deputy party chairman.

Yamaokas third son Tatsumaru is a former NHK journalist and since 2009 Shūgiin MP for the Democratic Party over the proportional representation block Hokkaidō.