Kosuke Hori

Kosuke Hori (Japanese保 利 耕 辅, Kosuke Hori, born September 23, 1934 in the prefecture of Tokyo) is a Japanese politician, Member of the Shūgiin, the House of Commons for the constituency Saga 3 and former ministers. Since 2012 he chairs the Audit Committee for the Constitution ( Kempo Chosakai ) in Shūgiin working on a possible amendment to the Constitution. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP), in which he belongs to no faction.

Life

Hori is the eldest son of Shūgiin - President and Minister Shigeru Hori. After studying at the Faculty of Law of Keio University, he worked from 1958 for the mechanical engineering company Nippon Seiko KK (English NSK Ltd.. ), for which he in 1974 the French subsidiary NSK France SA initiated. 1979 his father died, Hori candidate in the 1979 election Shūgiin successfully for the seat in the constituency fünfmandatigen saga, which covered the entire prefecture. It has since been re-elected eleven times, after the electoral reform in the new Einmandatswahkreis Saga 3 In the LDP he belonged to Tanaka, later to Takeshita faction.

1985 and 1996 was Hori Parliamentary Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Agriculture. 1990 Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu appointed him as Minister of Education for the first time in a cabinet. From 1999 to 2000 he was Minister of the Interior under Keizo Obuchi and Mori Yoshirō.

In 2005, Hori turned against the plans of Jun'ichirô Koizumi on the privatization of Japan Post. He voted against the privatization law and had to compete as an independent in the resulting elections without the support of national LDP, but received the support of the LDP prefectural association. The party nominated Motoko Hirotsu as a counter- candidate - a so-called " assassin " candidate or " Kunoichi " - in his constituency, but Hori was victorious. He returned in 2006 after the postal privatization was successfully launched, again in the LDP back, but did not join back to his old faction.

In August 2008, the Prime Minister and party leader Yasuo Fukuda appointed him as Chairman of the policy research committee ( seimu - Chosa -kai, Eng. PARC ). He retained the position even under Fukuda's successor Taro Aso until 2009.