Tetsuzo Fuyushiba

Tetsuzo Fuyushiba (Japanese冬 柴 铁 三, Fuyushiba Tetsuzo; born June 29, 1936 in Mukden, China (now Shenyang, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China); † December 5, 2011 in Amagasaki, Japan ) was a Japanese politician of the Kōmeitō, ministers and deputy in Shūgiin, the lower house.

Life

Fuyushiba was born a year before the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War the Japanese satellite state of Manchukuo. He spent his school years in Mie Prefecture. He studied until 1960 Law at the Kansai University, he put his bar exam in 1961 from. In 1963 he was involved in the founding of the Midosuji law firm in Osaka, where he then worked for over twenty years.

1986 candidate Fuyushiba the 2nd constituency (since 1998: 8th constituency) of Hyōgo Prefecture successful for the Shūgiin and has since been re-elected six times. He first belonged to the Kōmeitō, which was then in opposition. In the anti - LDP coalition government of Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa Fuyushiba in 1993 Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Interior. After the return of the LDP to power and the dissolution of the Kōmeitō he joined the New Progressive Party. Under the chairman Ichirō Ozawa Fuyushiba was Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs.

After the dissolution of the New Progressive Party Fuyushiba 1998 was Secretary General of the newly formed New Party Peace (新 党 平和, Shinto heiwa ). In the same year the party was part of the New Kōmeitō, Fuyushiba served as its secretary general involved in the talks that led to a government coalition with the LDP in 1999. In September 2006 Fuyushiba Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in the Cabinet Abe and the only representative of his party in the Cabinet; his successor as General Secretary was Kazuo Kitakawa. After Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda had first taken him into his cabinet, the Kōmeitō took over the Ministry of Environment in reshuffle in August 2008. Fuyushibas successor as minister was Sadakazu Tanigaki (LDP ).

In the 2009 election Shūgiin Fuyushiba lost his constituency to Yasuo Tanaka ( Japan New Party ) and then announced his retirement from politics.

He died at the age of 75 years of pneumonia in a hospital in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture.

Public policy positions and activities as Minister

During his tenure as Secretary-General of the coalition partner Jun'ichirô Fuyushiba urged Koizumi to refrain from planned visits to the Yasukuni Shrine.

Fuyushiba advocated the right to vote at prefecture and municipal elections for all foreigners living in Japan, while parts of the LDP want to grant this right only South Koreans and Taiwanese people.

With Fuyushibas took office as Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Tourism his ministry took over the special responsibility for tourism promotion (観 光 立国, Kanko Rikkoku, German as: "national erection of tourism" ), which should lead to his initiative in the establishment of an independent Tourism Authority.