YÅ«hei SatÅ
Yuhei Satō (Japanese佐藤 雄 平, Satō Yuhei; born December 13, 1947 in Shimogo, County Southern Aizu, Fukushima Prefecture) is a Japanese politician, former deputy in Sangiin (upper house ) and since 2006 non-party governor of Fukushima.
Life
Satō graduated in 1970 graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Kanagawa. He has since 1969 worked as a secretary for his uncle, the LDP deputies Kozo Watanabe. In 1983, he was the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Social Affairs.
When Sangiin - election in 1998 Satō was first elected, even in a political office: his candidacy as an independent candidate in Fukushima was supported by the Democratic Party ( DPJ ). He won the two- mandate constituency with the highest share of the vote; In 2004, he was officially, again re-elected as a candidate of the Democratic Party with the highest share of the vote. In the Upper House, he served as Chairman of the Special Committee on Okinawa and Northern Territories and a member of the Budget Committee.
In 2006 he resigned his parliamentary seat for the early gubernatorial election in Fukushima. The current incumbent Eisaku Satō had resigned due to a bribery scandal over the award of a dam construction project in September 2006 and arrested in October. Yuhei Sato's candidacy as a formally non-party candidate was supported by the then opposition parties DPJ and SDP. The election on November 12 he won with 497 171 votes against the LDP -supported candidate Masako Mori ( 395 950 votes), and two other candidates. On 31 October 2010 Satō was supported by DPJ, LDP, Kōmeitō, SDP, confirmed by the Trade Union Confederation Rengo Fukushima and business associations with an overwhelming majority of 609 to 79 thousand votes against only a communist opponent, Katsuro Satō in office. The LDP Fukushima renounced its own candidate to obtain a good working relationship with the governor before the parliamentary elections in April 2011.