Nobuaki Koga

Nobuaki Koga (Japanese古 贺 伸 明, Nobuaki Koga, born February 23, 1952 in Fukuoka Prefecture ) is a Japanese trade unionists. Since 2009 he is chairman of the largest national trade union federation Rengo.

After studying at the faculty of engineering of the University of Miyazaki Koga was founded in 1975 by Matsushita Denki Sangyo employees. In the local enterprise union, he took early leadership positions, first in a branch association, then the national board of directors. In 1986 he was Member of the Board, 1996 Chairman of the National Matsushita Denki Sangyo - union. In 2002 he became chairman of the Metal Workers ' Federation Kinzoku Rōkyō (IMF- JC ), 2005 unopposed Secretary General of the Rengo.

In 2009 he was elected to succeed Tsuyoshi Takagi as Rengo - chairman, confirmed in 2011 for another two years in office. The since the founding of the Democratic Party ( DP) close links to the Rengo - although not as close as between the predecessor organizations and the former left-wing parties - are occasionally questioned by Koga's office, which took place almost simultaneously with the government takeover of the DP: In 2011, he positioned - contrary to the previous Rengo and government policy - the Rengo as opponents of nuclear energy in the national energy policy debate; In 2012, he spoke as probably first Rengo President to the Board of the opposition after decades of reign of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ). In other areas, such as the prohibition of strikes in the public service work Rengo and DP continue to work closely together. In internal party power struggle of Naoto Kan and Ichiro Ozawa in the primaries in 2010, he called on the DP, maintain party unity.