Naoki Tanaka

Naoki Tanaka (Japanese田中 直 纪, Tanaka Naoki, born June 19, 1940 in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture as铃木 直 纪, Suzuki Naoki ) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party (DPJ ) and member of the Sangiin, the upper house of the national parliament, for the Niigata Prefecture.

Naoki Suzuki, the son of the politician Naoto Suzuki, grew up in Tokyo, studied at the Faculty of Law, Keio University Political Science and was named after its completion in 1965 Nippon Kokan KK employee (English NKK Corp., . nowadays JFE Engineering K. K. ). He married in 1969 Makiko Tanaka, the daughter of LDP Secretary General Kakuei Tanaka ( Tanaka faction, later party leader Prime Minister ), whose family name he took. In 1981 he left Nippon Kokan and took over management positions in various companies, including the board of Echigo Kotsu, a coach and real estate companies in the Tanaka family in Niigata Prefecture, a position he holds to this day.

1983 Tanaka moved into politics: In the 1983 election for Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament, he was elected as LDP candidate for the first time in dreimandatigen third constituency Fukushima. Re-elected in 1986, he lost in 1990 to third place and thus his mandate by about 200 votes, Goji Sakamoto (LDP, Abe faction ). In 1993, after the retirement of longtime LDP candidate and former Minister of Social Affairs Kunikichi Saitō ( Miyazawa faction ), Tanaka was one of only two LDP candidates re-elected once before in 1996 after a new election law the single constituency Fukushima 5 of Goji Sakamoto (now NFP ) lost and was voted out of it. From 1989 Tanaka was Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the first cabinet Kaifu.

When Sangiin - election in 1998 Tanaka ran as an independent with the support of his wife and other single deputy in the Niigata Prefecture ( two seats per constituency ) and was elected with the highest vote share. He joined then again the LDP and in 2001 was Vice Minister, Ministry of Agriculture (until September 2001). 2004 or re-elected as LDP candidate, he later left the LDP and entered 2009 with his wife, the DPJ, for which he was confirmed in 2010 for another six years in office. In Sangiin Tanaka was one of the Chairmen of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee (2009-2010) and the Ethics Special Committee (from 2010).