Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Japanese山口 壮, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi; born October 3 1954 in Aioi, Hyōgo Prefecture ) is a Japanese non-party politician and MP in the Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament for the 12th constituency Hyōgo. As a member of the Democratic Party ( Gemba Group) it was 2011, and 20112 State Secretary in the Cabinet Office and the Foreign Ministry.

Yamaguchi graduated from the law faculty of the University of Tokyo. He earned after a doctor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and became a civil servant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for which he was set among other things, in the People's Republic of China, Pakistan, the United Kingdom and the defense authority.

The policy Yamaguchi turned to in 1996 Shūgiin election, when he stood as a candidate in the 12th constituency Hyōgo for the New Progressive Party, but Saburō Komoto (LDP, the son of Toshio Komoto ) subject. Four years later, in 2000, he ran again as an independent and Komoto could exceed by about 5,000 votes. He later joined the Mushozoku no Kai ( " Assembly of Independents " ) by Motoo Shiina and Masami Tanabu at, for which he but in 2003 his constituency lost again Komoto. In 2005, he then ran for the Democratic Party, although lost the constituency again, but won on the proportional representation block Kinki a mandate, the democratic landslide victory in 2009, he could beat Komoto in his constituency clear. In the Democratic landslide defeat in 2012 Yamaguchi defended his seat with 44.2 % of the vote and a clear lead over its three rival candidates.

In the Democratic Party Yamaguchi, 2006 was the second shadow cabinet ( " Next Cabinet " ) of Ichirō Ozawa shadow foreign minister, and later as a Vice Chairman of the policy research council. In July 2011 he was appointed State Secretary in the Cabinet Office, to replace the Minister Tatsuo Hirano transported in Kan Cabinet. From 2011 to 2012, he was secretary of state for the Cabinet Noda.

In December 2013 Yamaguchi left the Democratic Party and took first party affiliation as " special membership " ( tokubetsu Kaiin ) to meetings of the Nikai faction of the LDP part. The Democratic Party of resignation to answer his expulsion from the party.

Yamaguchi's wife is a niece of ex- Minister of Justice Shôzaburô Nakamura, granddaughter of Mr Yoichiro Nakamura and great-granddaughter of the president of Kōshū Denryoku (later part of Tōkyō Denryoku ) and deputies Kunizō Mori.