Takeo Nishioka

Takeo Nishioka (Japanese西冈 武夫, Nishioka Takeo, born February 12, 1936 in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, † November 5, 2011 in the prefecture of Tokyo ) was a Japanese politician and since 2010 President of the Sangiin, the upper house of the Japanese parliament. He was a member of the Democratic Party ( DPJ ) and is the Ozawa group; since his election as President, he was formally attached Member.

Life

Nishioka was born in 1936 as the son of Shūgiin deputies Takejiro Nishioka, founder of a precursor of the Nagasaki Shimbun and after the Second World War, the second elected governor of Nagasaki. His mother was later Sangiin MPs Haru Nishioka. Already during his studies at Waseda University, Nishioka graduated in 1959, he worked for the newspaper of the Father, where he continued to work after that.

In the 1963 election Shūgiin Nishioka joined as an Independent in fünfmandatigen first constituency Nagasaki, which includes the city of Nagasaki, and was first elected to the fourth highest share of the vote for MPs. He was then confirmed a total of ten times for the Shūgiin. He first joined the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP), where he ( his - kyoku, for under 45 year old ) among others, the "Youth Division " headed. As part of the Lockheed scandal, he left the party and participated in the founding of New Liberal Club of Yohei Kono and Seiichi Tagawa and became general secretary of the new party. Back in 1979, left the back the New Liberal Club and returned a year later back in the LDP. Deselected in 1983, he could win back in 1986 with the highest share of votes a seat in his constituency. Within the party he belonged to the later Miyazawa faction.

In the late 1980s Nishioka rose to higher government and party items: From 1988 to 1989 he was in the cabinets Takeshita and Uno Minister of Culture; In 1990 he received under the reformist Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu as Chairman of the Executive Council of the LDP one of the " three party offices ". Kaifu, Nishioka, Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa and the PARC chairman Mutsuki Katō attempted political reform in the LDP enforce, but failed because of the intra-party opposition. After Kaifus fall 1991, all four left the party in the early 1990s.

In 1993 Shūgiin choice Nishioka was re-elected for the LDP, but left in the same year the party and belonged then to Kaikaku no Kai ( "Reform Meeting"), the party alliance Jiyu Kaikaku Rengo ( " Liberal Reform League" ), and finally from 1994 new Progressive Party. Under Ichirō Ozawa he led, in 1996, the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs. Then he was up to the dissolution of the party general secretary in 1997. Then he followed Ozawa in the Liberal Party.

After the electoral reform of 1994 Nishioka was a candidate in the election of 1996 in the new single constituency Nagasaki 1, which he won, but gave up his seat for the 1998 gubernatorial election in Nagasaki. When deciding on the successor to the long-time governor Isamu Takada Nishioka defeated but Genjiro Kaneko with around 290 to 412 thousand votes. When Sangiin - election in 2001 when he led the proportional list of the Liberal Party, with over 120 thousand preference votes, he returned to the Parliament. After the accession of the Liberal Democratic Party for he was re- elected in 2007 on the DPJ list with 151 376 preference votes across the country for another six years. From 2007 to 2010 he was head of the Executive Committee of the Sangiin ( Sangiin Giin unei iinkai ); In 2010, he broke Satsuki Eda on as president of the chamber.