Yōsuke Kondō

Yosuke Kondō (Japanese近藤 洋 介, Kondō Yosuke; born May 19, 1965 in Washington, DC) is a Japanese politician and member of the Shūgiin, the Japanese House of Commons, from the proportional representation block Tōhoku for the Democratic Party. Within the party he belongs to Noda group.

Kondō studied law at Keio University. After his graduation in 1988 he worked for eleven years for the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei ). In 1999 he left the company and candidate in the 2000 election as an Independent Shūgiin the 2nd constituency Yamagata, but lost Takehiko Endō (LDP ). In the following elections in 2003 and 2005 Kondō could, now as a candidate of the Democratic Party, the constituency again not win, but was elected on the proportional representation block Tōhoku. Not until the 2009 election, no longer ran as Endō, he could win the constituency. In 2012 he was defeated by political newcomer Norikazu Suzuki (LDP ), a former official of the Ministry of Agriculture, but again won a mandate proportional representation.

In Shūgiin Kondō been a member of the Committee on Economic, Trade and Industry and the Special Committee on Administrative Reform. In the Democratic Party, he served as vice chairman of the policy research committee, the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs and in 2006 a member of the Democratic Shadow Cabinet of Economy, Trade and Industry. From 2009 to 2010 he was Parliamentary State Secretary of Economics ( daijinseimukan ) for the Hatoyama Cabinet, 2012 Minister of Economic Affairs ( fukudaijin ) for the Cabinet Noda.

Family

Kondo's father was Tetsuo LDP politician, Member of Parliament and Minister of Labour. His maternal grandfather was the LDP MPs and Labour Minister Masakatsu Nohara.