KÅichirÅ Genba
Koichiro Gemba (Japanese玄 叶 光 一郎, Koichiro Gemba, born May 20, 1964 in Funehiki, County Tamura (now Tamura ), Fukushima Prefecture) is a Japanese politician and the DPJ 's former foreign minister of his country.
He is a deputy in Shūgiin, the lower house, for the third constituency Fukushima. Within the party is behind him own faction, the Gemba Group.
Gemba studied at the Faculty of Law ( Jochi ) Sophia University, after which he graduated from the Matsushita Seikei Juku (松下 政 経 塾, Eng. Matsushita Institute of Government and Management). In 1991 he stood as a candidate at the age of 26 years as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) successfully for a seat in Parliament Fukushima Prefecture. Two years later he succeeded in 1993 Shūgiin - election as an independent candidate in the constituency fünfmandatigen Fukushima 2 jump into the national parliament. He joined in the same year the New Party Sakigake, for which he belonged, among others, the Rules Committee of the Shūgiin.
1996, Gemba involved in the founding of the Democratic Party. Since the 1996 election he may run in the newly created single constituency Fukushima 3, which also includes his home county Tamura. In 1996 he was defeated Hiroyuki Arai (LDP ) and was re-elected on the proportional representation block Tōhoku, could then win the constituency since 2000 four times in a row.
Gemba was also a member of the Foreign Affairs and the Budget Committee in Shūgiin. In the Democratic Party, he was chairman of the election committee and deputy secretary-general ( kanjichō - dairi ). He was also a 2000, 2001 and 2002 to the shadow cabinets of former party leader Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan. In May 2010, he co-hosted with other members of his group, a committee that would examine ways to improve the public finances. He is known as intra-party opponents Ichirō Ozawa and called for the re- establishment of the Policy Research Council, the Ozawa had abolished.
2010 appointed party chairman and Prime Minister Naoto Kan Gemba as chairman of the Policy Research Council re- decorated in the party leadership and at the same time as Minister of State for reform of the civil service, fight against the falling birth rate and gender equality in his cabinet. In the first reshuffle on 17 September 2010, he was Minister of State for " new community ", which was expanded in the second transformation to the tasks of Science & Technology Policy.
After Kan was replaced by Yoshihiko Noda as party leader and Prime Minister, Gemba took over the post of foreign minister Noda Cabinet. When Shūgiin - election in 2012, the nation's electoral defeat of the DPJ, Gemba defended his constituency clear with more than twice as many votes as his main challenger candidate Sachiko Kanno (LDP ). Successor as foreign minister in December 2012 Fumio Kishida (LDP ).
Family
Gembas father was the governor of Fukushima, Eisaku Satō. His grandfathers were mayor of Funehiki ( paternal ) and Kagamiishi ( mother's side).