ShÅmei Yokouchi
Shomei Yokouchi (Japanese横 内 正 明, Shomei Yokouchi; born March 2, 1942 in Nirasaki, Yamanashi Prefecture) is a Japanese politician and since 2007 the Governor of Yamanashi.
Yokouchi, graduate of the Law Faculty of the University of Tokyo, after graduating in 1964 was an official in the Ministry of Construction. He was from 1984 Head of Department ( Kacho ) in the street department, from 1995 in the city department. In 1990 he was appointed Deputy Head of the Prime Minister Secretariat ( daijin Kambo shingikan ).
To Shūgiin - election in 1993 Yokouchi moved into politics and ran as Independent in fünfmandatigen constituency Yamanashi, which covered the entire prefecture. With the fourth highest share of the vote he was elected for the first of three election periods into Shūgiin - from 1996 for the new single constituency Yamanashi 3 - and the Liberal Democratic Party joined (LDP ) to. During the second Hashimoto Cabinet in 1997 he was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, 2001-2002 " Deputy Minister " for Justice in the first cabinet Koizumi.
Yokouchi 2002 resigned his seat in order to run in the gubernatorial election in 2003 in Yamanashi for the succession of Ken Amano, who did not compete again. However, in a field of four candidates, he was defeated by 158 to 167 thousand votes Takahiko Yamamoto, who enjoyed the support of Amano and both major parties. Then Yokouchi candidate in the election in July 2004 on the LDP proportional representation list for the Sangiin, but received just under 114 thousand votes, thus reaching the 19th place list, falling short of a seat, as the LDP won only 15 proportional representation seats.
At the next gubernatorial election in Yamanashi 2007 Yokouchi candidate at the insistence of Furusato Yamanashi o kangaeru kai ( " Society, thinking about the home Yamanashi " ) again, the former supporters organizing gubernatorial candidate Yukihiko Inoue in the 2003 election, and Yamamoto could this time with 235 to 188 thousand voices beat. Yokouchis first term ended in February 2011, in the election on 30 January he applied as " Ainori " candidate, so with the support of all major parties except the JCP to a second term and was at 42 percent voter turnout with 83 percent of voices confirmed in office.