Tetsuro Yano

Tetsuro Yano (Japanese矢野 哲朗, Tetsuro Yano, born November 6, 1946 in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Shinto Kaikaku, former deputy in Sangiin, the House of Lords, Tochigi and former Secretary of State.

Yano graduated in 1970 his studies in political science from the Faculty of Law, Keio University. He was then an employee of Sankyo Bussan 1983, he was elected for the first of three legislative periods in Tochigi Prefecture Parliament. In the 1992 election Sangiin Yano moved into national politics and was the candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) in Tochigi (until 2004: two mandates) the second highest share of the vote. He was re- elected in 1998 and 2004. In the LDP, he belonged to the last Ibuki faction.

In the 1990s, Yano was, among other Parliamentary Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Defence Office and the Ministry of Agriculture. In 1999 he took over the chairmanship of the Sangiin Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. He became Secretary of State ( fuku - daijin, " Vice Minister " ) in the State Department in 2002 the Cabinet Koizumi.

In April 2010, Yano left at the same time with the former Minister of Social Affairs Yōichi Masuzoe the LDP. Together with members of the Club Kaikaku they established for the 2010 Sangiin - choice, not even ran as a candidate in the Yano, the Shinto Kaikaku under Masuzoes chair. Yano is deputy chairman of the party.

Family

Yano's father Noboru was LDP deputy in Sangiin for Tochigi, his uncle, Masao in the postwar era member of the first constituency in Tochigi Shūgiin for the Democratic Party.