Naoki Minezaki

Naoki Minezaki (Japanese峰 崎 直树, Minezaki Naoki, born October 14, 1944 in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party (DPJ ), Secretary of State ( fuku - daijin, " Deputy Minister ") in the Ministry of Finance and a former deputy in the Sangiin, the Japanese Parliament's upper house. Within the party he belongs to the Yokomichi group of former socialists.

Life

Minezaki graduated in 1967 graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University from, then he completed a postgraduate course at the same university. He then worked until 1991 for the union of the prefecture and municipal employees (short Jichirō ) and then as Deputy Secretary General of the Prefecture Association of the Socialist Party of Japan ( SPJ ) in Hokkaido. In 1992 Sangiin - election, he stood as a candidate of the SPJ in Hokkaidō (then four seats per constituency ) stand for election, and went with the third highest share of the vote in a Sangiin. Under the SPJ -led Cabinet Murayama 1995, he headed the coalition committee for the control system, he became chairman of the Communications Committee in Sangiin, 1997 Chairman of the local administrations ( Chiho Gyosei ) 1996.

1996 Minezaki involved in the founding of the Democratic Party, for which he was confirmed in the elections in 1998 and 2004 as a deputy in Hokkaidō. From 2000, he was one of several DPJ shadow cabinets as "next finance minister ," as " the next Minister for Business and Industry" and " Next Minister of the financial sector " to. In 2007 he took over the presidency of the Sangiin Committee on Economic and Fiscal Policy. After the government takeover of the Democrats in 2009 Minezaki was Secretary of the Treasury in the cabinets Hatoyama and Kan.

In the 2010 election Sangiin Minezaki no longer went to.