Takuya Tasso

Takuya Tasso ( jap达 増 拓 也, Takuya Tasso, born June 10, 1964 in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture) is a Japanese politician and since 2007 a ​​first-term governor of Iwate Prefecture. Previously, he had for over ten years, most recently for the Democratic Party (DPJ ) the Shūgiin, the lower house of the Japanese parliament belongs.

Life

Tasso, a graduate of the Law Faculty of the University of Tokyo, in 1988, an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1991, he completed graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University. In the 1996 election he Shūgiin was first elected as a candidate of the New Progressive Party into Parliament in the constituency Iwate 1, which also includes his home town Morioka. During the Parteiumbildungen 1990s he was employed as one of the so-called Ozawa children, followers of party leader Ichiro Ozawa - also from Iwate - the Liberal Party Ozawa and finally the Democratic Party. His constituency was Tasso in 2000, defending 2003 and 2005. In Shūgiin he was also a member of the Budget and the Foreign Affairs Committee.

2007 announced in office since 1995, governor of Iwate, Hiroya Masuda on, not to run for a fourth term. Tasso resigned his seat in order to apply for the succession. The gubernatorial election took place as well as the general election in Iwate place at the uniform regional elections on April 8, 2007. Tassos candidacy as a formally independent candidate supported by the DPJ, its main competitor Jun'ichi Yanagimura had the support of then-ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Tasso could Yanagimura, dissociate the wrestler "The Great Sasuke " and two other candidates clear. At the same time, the DPJ in Iwate Prefecture for the first time the strongest party in parliament. Tasso joined the governorship on 30 April 2007.

During his tenure, he tried to consolidate the budget Iwates by cuts in the salaries of employees Prefecture and in infrastructure projects.