Yōhei Kōno

Yohei Kono (Japanese河野 洋 平, Kono Yohei, born January 15, 1937 in Hiratsuka ) is a Japanese politician, former deputy of the Liberal Democratic Party, Minister and President of Shūgiin, the Japanese House of Commons.

Kono was co-founder and chairman of the New Liberal Club, an LDP - elimination, which consisted 1976-1986. In the 1990s, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister and Chief Cabinet Secretary. From 1993 to 1995 he was chairman of the LDP, as they had lost the government involvement in almost fifty years for the first time. Through a coalition agreement with the Socialist Party of Japan, according to which these could ask the Prime Minister, brought Kono 1994, the LDP returned to the government. From 1998 to 2003 Kono had her own faction, the Kono faction ( officially: Taiyūkai ). Since his election as president Shūgiin 2003 he formally belonged to any political group or faction more. Kono retired after the 2009 election returns from the policy. He was the Shūgiin president with the longest tenure since the opening of Parliament in 1890.

From 1999 to 2013 he was also President of the Japanese Association of Athletics Federations ( Rikuren ).

Family

His father was the former minister, co-founder of the LDP and Rikuren president kono Ichirō. His eldest son, taro is a deputy in Shūgiin (LDP, Asō faction ). KONOS Uncle Kenzo was a member and president of the Sangiin, the House of Lords, and also Rikuren president.

KONOS maternal grandfather was the Kenseikai MPs Tagawa Heisaburō (田川平 三郎), whose grandson Seiichi was also Member of Parliament, Minister of the Interior from 1980 to 1984 and Chairman of the New Liberal Club.