Motohisa Ikeda

Motohisa Ikeda (Japanese池田 元 久, Ikeda Motohisa; born December 20, 1940 in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party (Kan group) and a former deputy in the Shūgiin, the lower house of the Japanese parliament, for the sixth constituency Kanagawa.

Ikeda worked after completing his studies in 1964 at the politics and economics department of Waseda University for the public broadcasting station NHK. In 1989, he left the station to go into politics. In the 1990 election Shūgiin he applied as a candidate of the Socialist Party of Japan ( SPJ ) in viermandatigen constituency Kanagawa 4 and was selected with the third highest share of the vote. However, he failed in the 1993 election - the constituency had been increased to five mandates - the fifth highest share of the vote by about 3,500 votes. In 1994 he was a lecturer at the business school of the University of Kanagawa.

After the electoral reform Ikeda candidate since 1996 for the Democratic Party in the new single constituency Kanagawa 6, which includes portions of the city of Yokohama. After two victories, he lost the constituency 2003 Isamu Ueda ( Kōmeitō ), but was not re-elected on the proportional representation block South Kanto. In 2005, he first had to again leave the Shūgiin, but returned in 2006 after the resignation of Hisayasu Nagata in the Livedoor scandal as substitutes back into Parliament. When democratic election victory in 2009 he was able to regain his constituency.

In Shūgiin, he served as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee (2002-2004) and the Disciplinary Committee ( 2007-2009). In 2010, he was after the commencement of the new Prime Minister Naoto Kan first " Vice- Minister " in the Finance Ministry, in September 2010, then in the Ministry of Economy. From 2011 to 2012, he was Chairman of the Social Affairs Committee Shūgiin. Lost at the 2012 Shūgiin election he received only the third highest share of the vote in his constituency and lost the constituency seat again Isamu Ueda; as the seventh best constituency losers on the list of Democrats in southern Kantō he also missed a proportional electoral mandate.