Sekinari Nii

Sekinari Nii (Japanese二 井 关 成, Nii Sekinari; born March 20, 1943 in Mine, Yamaguchi Prefecture) is a Japanese politician and served from 1996 to 2012 governor of Yamaguchi.

Nii was after completing his studies at the Law Faculty of the University of Tokyo in 1966 in the Ministry for self-government. From 1982 he also taught at the Shobo - Daigakkō, the Academy of the national fire brigade authority. From 1983 he worked at the Nihon Shobo Kyōkai, the " Japanese firefighters society," from 1984 in the prefecture administration of Yamaguchi, most recently in 1994 as Director of Finance ( suitōchō ), one of the " three [ major ] offices " a prefectural government. 1996 ended Nii his civil service career and turned to politics.

In the gubernatorial election in Yamaguchi in August 1996 Governor Tohoru Hirai occurred after five terms of office not again. Hirai supported the candidacy of former national MPs and Minister Akira Fukida, although this was supported by the opposition parties NFP and Komei. Nii had the formal support of the LDP, especially the de facto Mitsuzuka faction, and could Fukida, the former national MPs Katsuhiko Ozawa (supported by the New Party Sakigake ) and propose two candidates for the Liberal League and the JCP. After that, he was confirmed in each case only three times against a JCP candidate in office.

In the 2012 election he did not run to Niis successor was elected with his support Shigetarō Yamamoto.