Tamisuke Watanuki
Tamisuke Watanuki (Japanese绵 贯 民 辅, Watanuki Tamisuke; born April 30, 1927 in Inami, County Higashitonami (now Nanto ), Toyama, Japan) is a Japanese politician and former Member of the Japanese House of Commons ( Shūgiin ) and chairman of the New People's Party. As a long- time member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP), he served as President of the House, Minister of State and LDP Secretary General.
Life
Watanuki is the son of the entrepreneur and deputies Suketami Watanuki. He completed his studies in 1955 at the Keio University from, then he took over the management of the forwarding Tonami Un'yu KK (English Tonami Transportation Co., Ltd.)., whose president today is his son Katsusuke. In 1959 he was elected to his second candidacy in the prefecture of Toyama Parliament. In the general election in 1969 dreimandatigen second constituency Toyama he was first elected as LDP candidate in the national parliament. He was 13 times confirmed in a row as a deputy, after the election district reform in the new single constituency Toyama 3, up to being voted out in 2009. 's LDP he first joined the Kawashima / Shiina faction to, following its dissolution he belonged to Tanaka - faction, and finally from 1985 to Heisei Kenkyūkai, Takeshita / Kanemaru / Obuchi / Hashimoto faction.
After several state secretary and committee posts Watanuki was appointed in 1986 as head of the authority for state land and the authorities for the development of Okinawa and Hokkaido's first time to the Cabinet. In 1990 he was minister of construction in the second cabinet Kaifu. In 1991 he took under Kiichi Miyazawa, the function of the LDP Secretary General. In 1998, when his Faktionsvorsitzender Keizo Obuchi Prime Minister was party chairman, Watanuki took over for two years the chair of the Heisei Kenkyūkai. In 2000 he was elected president of the lower house (up to 2003).
In the dispute over the Jun'ichirô of Koizumi initiated in 2005 Post privatization law Watanuki was one of the guiding word of inner-party opponents Koizumi. For the resulting elections he founded together with Shizuka Kamei and other "rebels" the New People 's Party ( Kokumin Shinto ). His constituency he could defend against the nominees of Koizumi " assassin " candidates Kyōgon Hagiyama scarce. Although the strategy Koizumi went to a total, and the postal privatization could be carried out as planned. However, the New People's Party was founded at the same time different from the Japan New Party keep their MP mandates and moved with four deputies to the House.
After his party was working in opposition with the Democratic Party ( Minshutō ) together, even though they advertise different from the Japan New Party to a rural, more conservative electorate. In Sangiin, the upper house, the three parties form a common fraction.
Watanuki took in 2008, 2009 and 2010 part of the spring visit of MPs and ministers in the Yasukuni Shrine.
In the general election in 2009 he failed to be re-elected. He was set up as a candidate in the proportional representation block Hokuriku Shin'etsu ( Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Nagano ). However, outside his home prefecture of Toyama his party could barely get votes and therefore do not send candidates to parliament. The following day he announced his resignation as party leader.
Watanuki is also president of the Japanese Badminton Association and the Badminton Association of Toyama Prefecture.