Masahiko Yamada

Masahiko Yamada (Japanese山田 正彦, Masahiko Yamada, born April 8, 1942 in Fukue (now Gotō ), Nagasaki Prefecture) is a Japanese politician. Between 1993 and 2012 he was intermittently for a total of five election periods deputy in Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament, from Nagasaki.

Yamada, a graduate of Waseda University, put his bar exam in 1969 ( Shiho shiken ) from, but then taught a stock farm in his native one. After commercial difficulties in the wake of the oil crisis, he established a law office in Nagasaki, but then turned with the opening of trade in meat shops and restaurants back to the cattle industry.

For the first time in 1979 ran Yamada for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ) in fünfmandatigen 1 constituency for the Shūgiin Nagasaki, ended up with around 32 thousand votes only in eighth place. Two other candidates as an Independent, now in the second constituency Nagasaki ( four seats), in the elections in 1986 and 1990 also failed. 1993 Yamada appeared as a candidate of the party renewal again, achieved the highest share of the vote in the second constituency and became a deputy. From 1994 he was a member of the New Progressive Party, for which he ran in 1996 in the new single constituency Nagasaki 3, but Torashima Kazuo (LDP ) was defeated. In 2000 he joined, now for the Liberal Party Ichirō Ozawa on. He lost the constituency even clearer to Torashima, but was re-elected on the proportional representation block Kyūshū.

As of 2003, Yamada was a member of the Democratic Party ( DP), for which he was confirmed three times as MP, most recently in 2009 and almost again about his constituency. In Shūgiin Yamada was also a member of the Agriculture Committee. In the party was under the Chairman Seiji Ozawa Mahara and Ichirō 2005, 2006 and 2007 to the " next cabinet ", the shadow cabinet of the Democratic Party. After the electoral victory in 2009 was Secretary of State Yamada ( " Deputy Minister " ) in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Hirotaka Akamatsu in the Cabinet under Hatoyama, 2010 then Akamatsus successor as Minister in the Cabinet Kan. In September 2010, he was replaced by Michihiko Kano. From 2010 to 2011 he was the Chairman of the Shūgiin Agriculture Committee, from 2011 to 2012 of the Ethics Special Committee.

In November 2012 Yamada left the DP and founded together with Shizuka Kamei, the Han - TPP ( "anti- TPP "), which after a few days with the Genzei Nippon for Datsu - Gempatsu ( " nuclear phase-out " ) merged, then in the Nippon Mirai no tō Ozawa came up. For this he lost at the 2012 Shūgiin election the constituency Nagasaki 3 to Yaichi Tanigawa (LDP ) and reached with his constituency result ( sekihairitsu 75.1 %) while the second place on the proportional representation list, the party won in Kyushu but only a proportional representation seat.