Masatoshi Wakabayashi

Masatoshi Wakabayashi (若 林 正 俊Japanese, Masatoshi Wakabayashi, born July 4, 1934 in Shinonoi (now Nagano ), Nagano Prefecture) is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) and ministers. He was the last member of the Sangiin, the Japanese House of Lords, for the electoral district of Nagano and was within the LDP faction of the Machimura.

Wakabayashi is a graduate of the University of Tokyo and, after completing his studies in 1957 in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. In 1983, he left the ministry and was first into the Shūgiin, the lower house elected. From 1989 to 1990 Wakabayashi was Parliamentary Secretary in the Department of Management and coordination. After he had lost his seat in 1990, he was re-elected in the 1993 election Shūgiin. He was voted out again under a new electoral law in 1996. 1998 Wakabayashi was finally elected to the Sangiin and joined the Machimura faction to.

In the cabinet of Prime Minister Abe Shinzō Wakabayashi was appointed in 2006 to the Minister for the Environment, which he provisionally each mitübernahm the Department of Agriculture after the suicide of Toshikatsu Matsuoka and the resignation of Norihiko Akagi. After the reshuffle in August 2006, he initially did not belong to the Cabinet, but was after the resignation of Takehiko Endō his successor as Minister for Agriculture. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda Reserve left him when he took office at his post, but replaced him in August 2008 by Seiichi Ōta.

In April 2010, he submitted his resignation as an MP after it became known that he had tuned in (electronic) voting for the absent party colleagues Mikio Aoki without his consent. His seat won his eldest son Kenta at the regular election in July 2010.