Toshio Ogawa

Toshio Ogawa (Japanese小川 敏夫, Toshio Ogawa, born March 18, 1948 in Nerima, Tokyo) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party (DPJ ), Member of the Sangiin for the Tokyo Prefecture and former Minister of Justice. Within the party he belongs to the Kan group.

Ogawa, graduated from Rikkyo University, then worked from 1973 initially as an assistant judge ( saiban - Jiho ) at the District Court Shizuoka, from 1976 as a prosecutor in the District Attorney Tokyo. This he left in 1981 and was registered with the Bar Association of Tokyo down as a lawyer. In the 1980s he was also a lecturer at Rikkyo University and the Academy of control ( zeimu daigakkō ) of the Ministry of Finance.

His entry into politics took place Ogawa in the 1990s: In 1996 Shūgiin - election, he went to the Democratic party in the 9th electoral district Tokyo, but was defeated with about 59 to 67 thousand votes incumbent Koichi Yoshida of the New Progressive Party. Two years later he received at the Sangiin - election in 1998 in the prefecture of Tokyo (then four seats per constituency ) over a million votes and moved as having the highest share of the vote in a House of Lords; In 2004 he was re-elected with the second highest share of the vote. In Sangiin, he served as Chairman of the Cabinet Committee and the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. After the change of government in 2009, he was until 2010 Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. In the 2000s he belonged to several democratic shadow cabinets and is a member of the Executive Board of the Association of Tokyo Prefecture of the Democratic Party.

During the election campaign for the 2010 election Sangiin Ogawa joined the Democratic Party in Tokyo next to the popular management Renho Minister. In order to prevent an unfavorable distribution of the DPJ votes on both candidates to Ogawa focused on the democratic electoral base and the sooner the socialists / social affiliated unions. With nearly 700 thousand votes Ogawa finished fourth and was confirmed for another six years as a deputy. In September 2010, he was Deputy Minister of Justice in the reshuffled Cabinet Kan. In January 2012 he was appointed by Yoshihiko Noda at a cabinet reshuffle to succeed Hideo Hiraoka as Minister of Justice, replaced in June 2012 with a renewed conversion by Makoto Taki.

Ogawa is divorced from actress Yoshie Ichige.