Norihisa Tamura

Norihisa Tamura (Japanese田村 宪 久, Tamura Norihisa; * December 15, 1964 in Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( Nukaga faction ), Member of the Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament, for the 4th constituency Mie and since 2012 social and Labour Minister in the second cabinet Abe.

Tamura is the nephew of Hajime Tamura, of the then three- mandate constituency Mie 2 represented for the Liberal Democratic Party from 1955 to 1996 in Shūgiin and in the 1970s and 80s several times minister and was president of the Shūgiin. Norihisa Tamura completed an economics degree at the Faculty of Law, University of Chiba, and then worked for Nippon DOKEN, a US-based construction company in Mie Tamura family. In 1994 he became secretary to his uncle.

When this withdrawing to Shūgiin - election in 1996, Tamura took over the LDP candidate in the newly created by the electoral reform Einmandatswahlkreis Mie 4, where he sat down by a narrow margin against Akihiko Noro ( NFP ). The constituency he was then able to defend three times, in 2009 he was defeated narrowly Democrats Tetsuo Morimoto, but was re-elected on the proportional representation block Tōkai, 2012, he sat down in the constituency again clear by.

For cabinets of Jun'ichirô Koizumi Shimomura was Parliamentary Secretary ( Daijinseimukan ) in the Social and Labour (2002) and in the cult and Science Ministry ( 2003). From 2003 he was chairman of the LDP Prefecture Mie Association. In the first cabinet of Shinzō Abe he was 2006 State / " Deputy Minister " ( Fukudaijin ) in Sōmushō.

First Minister was Tamura 2012 at the second cabinet Abe, where he took over the social and labor ministry.