Shozaburo Jimi

Shôzaburô Jimi (Japanese自 见 庄三郎, Jimi Shôzaburô; born November 5, 1945 in Kokura (now Kitakyushu ), Fukuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese politician, former deputy in Sangiin, the House of Lords, and Minister for the financial sector and the reform of postal services first in the Cabinet Kan, then in the Cabinet Noda. From 2012 to 2013 he was chairman of the New People's Party.

Jimi completed his medical studies in 1970 at the Kyushu University from, then he graduated from postgraduate studies as a medical researcher and earned doctoral degrees. After 1980 began research at the Harvard School of Public Health, he returned in 1982 as a lecturer at the Kyushu University back.

In the election in December 1983 Shūgiin, the lower house, ran Jimi himself and was in viermandatigen 4th Fukuoka constituency for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ), first elected with the third highest share of the vote. In the LDP, he joined the Nakasone faction of the then incumbent Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. For the Shūgiin then was re-elected six times in a row, from 1996 in a single constituency Fukuoka 10

From the late 1980s, Jimi received leadership positions in the party and in several cabinets: In 1989, he was Parliamentary Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Land Authority, 1990 at MITI. In 1995 he took over the presidency of the Communications Committee of the Shūgiin, later in the same year as Deputy Chairman of the Policy Research Council of the LDP. A year later he was Deputy Secretary-General. Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto appointed him in 1997 as Postmaster General in his second cabinet.

During the intra-party dispute over the Japanese government Post 2005 Jimi was one of the so-called "rebels", the opponents of the run by the party chairman Jun'ichirô Koizumi privatization. When Koizumi prematurely led Shūgiin - election in 2005 Jimi came on as an Independent and lost his constituency to the " assassin " candidate Kyoko Nishikawa. He joined the LDP " rebels" incurred by New People's Party of Tamisuke Watanuki and returned at the 2007 Sangiin - election on the national proportional representation in parliament back: With over 117,000 preferential votes he was the first place on the list and so the only proportional representation seat the party conquer. He was then appointed deputy party chairman, 2008, the Office of the Chairman of the Policy Research Council.

As the New People's Party lost the 2009 seats the party chairman Watanuki and Secretary General of Hisaoki Kamei at the Shūgiin - election, the new party leader Shizuka Kamei called Jimi General Secretary. Kamei was in a coalition government with the Democratic Party Minister, but resigned in June 2010, back in the controversy over the revision of postal privatization, prompting Prime Minister Naoto Kan called Jimi 's successor as minister. Yoshihiko Noda took him on September 2, 2011 to the post in his new cabinet. He stood up to a Kabinetssumbildung in June 2012 Minister.

In April 2012, Jimi took over after the fall and subsequent leakage of Shizuka Kamei the party presidency of the New People's Party, which he retained until the dissolution of the party in the spring of 2013. In the 2013 election Sangiin Jimi did not run for another term as an MP.