Masaharu Nakagawa (House of Representatives)

Masaharu Nakagawa (Japanese中 川 正 春, Nakagawa Masaharu, born June 10, 1950 in Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture) is a Japanese politician and member of the Democratic Party ( Hata group) in Shūgiin, the lower house of the Japanese parliament, for the 2nd Constituency Mie and former ministers.

Nakagawa, a graduate of Georgetown University, worked from 1975 for the Japan Foundation, the Foundation for International Cultural Exchange Foreign Ministry. In 1983 he moved into politics when he was elected in the regional elections in April as a candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party for the first of three legislative periods in Mie Prefecture Parliament. He joined the "boom of new parties " in the early 1990s, the New Japan Party, later of the New Progressive Party of, for in 1996 he released the new single constituency Mie 2 won in Shūgiin - election, which he then five times for the Democratic Party consequence defended. In Shūgiin he was also a member of the Budget Committee and the Special Committees of the Constitution and international terrorism ( Iraq Special Committee ). In the Democratic Party Nakagawa was 2001-2006 Chairman of the Prefecture Association Mie, in the National Party, he took off in 2004 when he said Zeisei - Chosakai, the " Research for the control system " chaired for a year, increasingly higher positions, as of 2007 was he in the " next cabinet ", the shadow cabinet of the Democrats, under Ichirō Ozawa shadow finance minister.

After the Democratic victory in 2009, when Nakagawa won his constituency with a record of 138 thousand votes, he was Vice Minister, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology after the commencement of the Cabinet Hatoyama. He retained the position even in the next Cabinet Kan until September 2010.

After Kan was replaced in September 2011 as Prime Minister of Yoshihiko Noda, he appointed Nakagawa Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in his cabinet, but replace it with a cabinet reshuffle already in January 2012 by Hirofumi Hirano. In February 2012 he was appointed Noda as Minister of State at the Cabinet Office again in his umbgebildetes cabinet, where he assumed several responsibilities ( " new community " ( Atarashii Kogyo ), tackling the falling birth rate, gender equality, civil protection ) of Deputy Prime Minister Katsuya Okada and reconstruction minister Tatsuo Hirano. With a further reshuffle in June 2012, he gave the ministerial position for birth rate of Social Affairs Yōko Komiyama and took over the responsibility for the " reform of the civil service " ( kōmuin seido kaikaku ). He remained until a new cabinet reshuffle in October 2012 Minister.

After the defeat of the Democratic Party at the 2012 election Shūgiin Nakagawa was (first ) Deputy Secretary General ( kanjichō - Daiko ); he himself had defended his constituency with significant election losses, but by a margin of over 25,000 votes to his next rival candidates.