Toranosuke Katayama

Toranosuke Katayama (Japanese片 山 虎 之 助, Katayama Toranosuke; born August 2, 1935 in Kasaoka, Okayama Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Tachiagare Nippon, Member of the Sangiin, the upper house of parliament, and a former minister.

Curriculum vitae

Katayama, a graduate of the Law Faculty of the University of Tokyo, after graduating in 1958 was official in the Jichi -chō, the " authority for self-government ," which was upgraded two years later to the Ministry for self-government. For the Ministry, he worked, among others, the Minister of secretarial and administrative prefecture of Shizuoka, 1986, he was Governor Shiro Nagano Lieutenant Governor of his native prefecture of Okayama. In 1988 he ended his official career and moved into politics.

In the 1989 election Sangiin Katayama took over the LDP candidate in Okayama (then two seats per election ) of Mutsuo Kimura ( Tanaka-/Takeshita-Faktion ), who retired from politics. Although the candidate of the nation's successful Rengo no Kai was able to achieve substantial share of the vote, but Katayama and the SPJ candidate Nobuko Mori could defend the seats in Okayama for the established parties. 1995 and 2001, when the constituency was reduced to a mandate, Katayama was confirmed in each case with the highest share of the vote in office., - At that time still the strongest - former Takeshita faction in the LDP, the closed soon he was deputy positions in the LDP party leadership, he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in 1992. 1995 during the grand coalition with the SPJ he took over the chairmanship of the Finance Committee of the Sangiin. In 1996 he took over the chairmanship of the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs of the LDP.

In December 2000 Yoshirō Mori Katayama appointed as Postmaster General, Minister of Government and Head of the Department of General Affairs in his cabinet, who went three authorities a few weeks later at the Ministry of General Affairs on that Katayama also in the subsequent first Cabinet Koizumi still to September 2003 led. He positioned himself first as an opponent already discussed the complete privatization of the state post, but wore in "Post Parliament " of 2005 as the secretary general of the LDP Sangiin Group (2004-2006) ultimately the efforts of the party's leadership, the LDP deputies in Sangiin ( that can not be resolved) to force them to consent. At the same time he tried to introduce proposed changes by the opponents of the privatization bill. In between, he served as Chairman of the Budget Committee.

In 2007 Sangiin - election, the opposition Democratic party nominated in Okayama Yumiko Himei, which contested the first time in a national election. Katayama subject Himei around 50 thousand votes and lost his mandate. He then retired from politics and not intended for the next Sangiin 2010 election as a candidate for country-wide proportional to - there is valid in the LDP but an age limit of 70 years. In May 2010, Katayama left the LDP and joined the newly founded Tachiagare Nippon Takeo Hiranuma, whose political home is also located in Okayama. Katayama received nationwide around 118 thousand preference votes and won the only seat the party in 2010. He was then Secretary General of the Sangiin fraction of Tachiagare Nippon.