Sadakazu Tanigaki

Sadakazu Tanigaki (Japanese谷 垣 祯 一, Tanigaki Sadakazu; born March 7, 1945 in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture) is a Japanese politician, 2009-2012 Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ), President of Justice and former finance and transport ministers of his country. Within the party he led from 2005 to 2008 the Tanigaki faction, the smaller part of the 2000 split Kōchikai before the two groups joined forces again in May 2008.

Life

Tanigaki attended the prestigious Azabu High School and then studied law at the University of Tōkyō. After a brief career as a lawyer, he was elected in 1983 on the death of his father, the former Education Minister Tanigaki Sen'ichi on whose lower house seat in fünfmandatigen second constituency of Kyoto Prefecture. It has since been re-elected ten times, since 1996, 5th in the new Einmandatswahlkreis Kyoto

In 1997 he became the first Minister at the Office of Science and Technology (科学 技术 庁, Kagaku Gijutsu Chō ). Under Prime Minister Koizumi Jun'ichirô he served as minister in various ministries. From 2003 to the end of the Koizumi era 2006 Tanigaki was finance minister. In the race to succeed Koizumi's party and government chairmanship he lost Shinzō Abe and Taro Aso. During the campaign for the party chairmanship Tanigaki rule out a visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, should he be elected.

Since the inauguration of Yasuo Fukuda as party leader and Prime Minister in September 2007 was Tanigaki chairman of the Policy Affairs Research Council (short: PARC, Japanese政务 调查 会, Seimu Chosa Kai ) of the LDP, one of the three major party posts (next to the Secretary General and the Chairman of the Executive Council (総 务 会, Somu -kai ) ) distributed by the Prime Minister among the factions and the next important cabinet posts ( Cabinet Secretary, Minister of Foreign Affairs ) open up opportunities in a succession of party leader. In a cabinet reshuffle in August 2008 Fukuda Tanigaki appointed Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport ( MLIT ), his successor as Chairman of PARC was the faktionslose Kosuke Hori. In office of Prime Minister Taro Aso in September 2008 Tanigaki was replaced by Nariaki Nakayama in the MLIT.

When choosing the LDP party leader Tanigaki 2009 candidate for the succession of taro Asō and won with 300 of 499 votes against taro Kono and Yasutoshi Nishimura. On September 10, 2012 for the election of the new LDP Chairman on 26 September, he announced not want to run.

In December 2012, his successor Shinzō Abe appointed him as Minister of Justice in his second cabinet.