Nobuo Kishi

Nobuo Kishi (Japanese岸 信 夫, Nobuo Kishi; born April 1, 1959 in the prefecture of Tokyo as Nobuo Abe (安 倍 信 夫, Nobuo Abe ) ); reported in Tabuse, Yamaguchi prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( Machimura faction ) and since 2012 deputy in Shūgiin, the lower house of the Japanese parliament, for the 2nd constituency Yamaguchi.

Nobuo Abe, son of Shintaro Abe, brother of Shinzō Abe and grandson of Nobusuke Kishi and Kan Abe was adopted early by the maternal Kishi family. He studied at the Faculty of Economics, Keio University and, after graduating in 1981, an employee of Sumitomo Shoji, where it was used among others in the United States, Vietnam and Australia. In 2002 he left the company.

In the 2004 election Sangiin Kishi ran in Yamaguchi to succeed Masuo Matsuoka, to which the Liberal Democrats had lost the seat in 1998 for the first time since 1956. Kishi was the former Deputy Governor of Yamaguchi, Democrat Hiroko Oizumi, beat 365 to 311 thousand votes and three other candidates. In 2010 he was re-elected with a significant result against the actor Daijiro Harada for another six years. In Sangiin Kishi was also a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and the Audit Board. From 2008 to 2009 he was during the cabinets Fukuda and Asō Parliamentary Under Secretary of Defense, from September 2013 for the second cabinet Abe " Deputy Minister " at the State Department.

For the 2012 election Shūgiin Kishi resigned in Sangiin; in the second constituency Yamaguchi, he ran against the Democrats Hideo Hiraoka and sat through clearly.