Ryu Matsumoto
Ryu Matsumoto (Japanese松本 龙, Ryu Matsumoto, born May 17, 1951 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party ( Yokomichi group). From 1990 to 2012, he was a deputy in the Shūgiin, the lower house of Parliament.
Matsumoto studied political science at the Faculty of Law, Chuo University, and in 1980 Secretary of the deputies his father's office. In the 1990 election Shūgiin Matsumoto ( SPJ ) occurred even as the candidate of the Socialist Party of Japan at that time fünfmandatigen constituency Fukuoka to 1, when the long-standing local SPJ MPs Tadashi Kawano withdrew from politics. Matsumoto was selected with the second highest share of the vote, confirmed in 1993 and re-elected from 1996 for the Democratic Party five times in the new single constituency Fukuoka 1. In Shūgiin, he served as 1996 Chairman of the Special Committee for the relocation of the Parliament and 2000 Chairman of the Environment Committee. In the Democratic Party, he was chairman of the 2001 election strategy Commission, 2009 and 2010, Chairman of the General Assembly of the two parliamentary groups.
In September 2010, the party leader Naoto Kan Matsumoto appointed as Minister of Environment and Minister of State for Civil Protection in his reorganized cabinet. In June 2011, he gave the Ministry of Environment to Justice Minister Satsuki Eda and received the newly created responsibility for the " reconstruction policies after the" Great East Japan Earthquake " (东 日本 大 震灾 复兴 対 策, Higashi - Nihon daishinsai fukkō Taisaku ). He stayed eight days in office until he sparked by remarks to the governors of the affected prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi a public outcry and resignation. Successor as disaster prevention and reconstruction minister Tatsuo Hirano, the previous Secretary of State.
In the 2012 election Shūgiin Matsumoto received in the constituency Fukuoka 1 36 632 votes, with 18.3% only the third highest share of the vote behind Takahiro Inoue (LDP ) and Hibiki Takeuchi ( Minna no Tō ). This constituency result, he wound up a proportional representation list of Democrats in Kyushu in 19th place and also missed re-election in the block significantly.
Family
Matsumoto's grandfather was the founder of the Buraku Kaiho Jiichirō domei, the "League for the Emancipation of the Buraku ", for which he is considered the father of the movement; He was also from 1936 Shūgiin deputy and 1947, the first Vice- President of the Sangiin, the elected Upper House under the postwar constitution. His father Eiichi was 26 years for the SPJ delegates in Sangiin. His brother runs the family-owned construction company Yuzo Matsumoto - gumi in Fukuoka.