Shigeru Ishiba

Shigeru Ishiba (Jap.石 破 茂Ishiba Shigeru, born February 4, 1957 in Køge, County Yazu, Tottori Prefecture) is a Japanese politician, Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) and former minister. Since 1986 he has been a deputy in the lower house for the first constituency of Tottori Prefecture. Within the LDP, he formerly belonged to the Nukaga faction, but is now faktionslos.

Life

Ishiba studied law at Keio University and after graduating worked for Mitsui Bank (now Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group ). In 1986, he was elected in the constituency viermandatigen Tottori, which covered the whole prefecture to the House. Since 1996, he represented the new Einmandatswahlkreis 1, which includes the eastern Tottori. He belonged to the LDP for the Tanaka faction.

1994 Ishiba left the LDP and joined the Shinseitō of Ichirō Ozawa and Tsutomu Hata, which later became the Shinshinto. After the LDP, the government -controlled firm, he came back in 1997 back to the party and became a member of the Obuchi faction (now the Tsushima faction ).

From December 2000 to April 2001 was Ishiba state secretary in the Defense Agency ( the predecessor of the Ministry of Defence ), from September 2002 to April 2004 then its director. In this role, he was instrumental in the preparation and execution of the Iraq deployment of the Self-Defense Forces, which he advocated significantly. On 22 February 2008 Ishiba announced that he would resign as Secretary of Defense, it turned out that his ministry in a possible cover-up of the collision of the Atago, an Aegis destroyer Atago the class had been involved with a fishing boat.

In the reshuffle in August 2008 Ishiba was replaced by Yoshimasa Hayashi (LDP, Koga faction ). In 2008 he stood as a candidate in the election for the LDP chairman, but only got the fünfthöchtsten share of the vote. From September 2008 to September 2009 he was Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the cabinet Asō. From 2009 to 2011, he was awarded as PARC chairman of one of the " three party offices " ( tō - san'yaku ). In 2012, he ran again in the election of a successor to Sadakazu Tanigaki for the party presidency. Although he led on the first ballot, in which the delegates are entitled to vote of the prefectural associations, but was defeated in the runoff election, in which shall vote only MPs from both chambers of the national parliament, Shinzō Abe. Abe called him then as Secretary-General.

Ishiba is a member of the Japan- Korea Parliamentarians.

Family

Shigeru Ishiba is the eldest son of Ishiba Jiro, a former governor of Tottori and Minister of the Interior. Ishibas maternal grandfather, Kanamori taro, was governor of Tottori and Yamagata. His father was a Protestant minister; Shigeru Ishiba is also a Protestant.