Michihiko Kano

Michihiko Kano (Japanese鹿野 道 彦, Kano Michihiko; born January 24, 1942 in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party (DPJ ). He was until 2012 a Member of the Shūgiin, of the House for the first constituency Yamagata and from September 2010 to June 2012 Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the cabinets Kan, first reshuffle, 2nd reshuffle, Noda and first transformation.

Kano, a graduate of Gakushuin University, worked as a secretary for his father Hikokichi, Shūgiin - deputy of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) for the then four- mandate constituency Yamagata 1 After his father in 1972 just scored the fifth highest share of the vote in the Shūgiin election, tried Michiko Kano 1976 to recover as LDP candidate his father's seat. With about 7,000 votes ahead of the former Cabinet Secretary Yasumi Kurogane (LDP, Ohira faction ) it reached number four and was elected for the first of so far eleven legislative periods as a deputy. In the LDP, he joined the Fukuda faction.

In 1981, Kano Parliamentary Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Transport, 1986 Chairman of the Shūgiin traffic committee. For the first time in 1989 as minister, he was Minister of Agriculture in the first cabinet Kaifu, three years later, in 1992, appointed him Kiichi Miyazawa as head of the authority of General Affairs in his cabinet. The first time the LDP lost power in 1993 Kano initially remained in the party and left the LDP in 1994 after the resignation of the Cabinet Hosokawa. He founded with four other MPs Shinto Mirai (新党みらい, " New Party Future" ), which merged in December 1994 in the New Progressive Party ( NFP ). There he stood as a candidate in December 1997 against Ichirō Ozawa for the party presidency, but was defeated by 230 to 182 votes. Shortly after the NFP deputies decided the dissolution of the party of the year.

Kano was then chairman of the Kokumin no Koe ( " voice of the people "). It cooperated in parliament with other NFP - successor parties without Ozawa, who still banded together in January 1998 and finally Minseitō aufgingen in April of the same year in the Democratic Party. There he was 1999 Chairman of the Committee on Parliamentary Affairs, then in 1999 Chairman of the Research Committee on the Constitution and Vice Chairman ( fuku - Daihyō ) of the party. After a scandal involving a former secretary in 2002 he stepped from the party.

2003 lost Kano - now returned to the Democratic Party - his constituency to Toshiaki Endō (LDP ), but remained above the proportional representation block Tohoku deputy; the LDP landslide victory in the election of 2005, he missed with an even worse constituency result, the re-election of the proportional representation list. When democratic election victory in 2009 Kano Ando beat just by around 1,300 votes, returned to the Shūgiin and was then chairman of the Budget Committee. A year later he was appointed Naoto Kan as agriculture minister in his cabinet. Yoshihiko Noda took over him as a single minister with its own ministry in his cabinet. In his second reshuffle in June 2012, he lost this position again.

In 2012 Shūgiin - election, he lost his constituency again Toshiaki Endō and also missed almost the re-election by proportional representation block - but he is the fourth- best constituency loser of the first possible Nachrückkandidat in the event of a vacancy among the three proportional representation deputies of the Democrats in Tohoku.