Yutaka Banno

Yutaka Banno (Japanese伴 野 豊, Yutaka Banno; * January 1, 1961 in Tōkai, Aichi Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party. He was from 2000 to 2012 deputy in Shūgiin, the lower house of the Japanese parliament, for the 8th constituency Aichi and 2010-2011 " Deputy Minister " at the State Department.

Banno graduated in 1983 his studies at the Technical University of Nagoya, where he followed until 1985, followed by an graduate studies. After that, he became an employee of the state railway, after their privatization and division In 1987, he was taken over by JR Tōkai, where he later among others participated in the planning for the Chūō Shinkansen. In 1994 he left the company to turn to politics. Initially he worked as a secretary to a Shūgiinabgeordneten, 1995 in Aichi Prefecture Association of the New Progressive Party ( NFP ).

In the 1996 election Shūgiin Banno ran for the NFP in the fifth constituency Aichi, but landed behind the Democrats Hirotaka Akamatsu and the Liberal Democrats Takehide Kimura only in third place. After the dissolution of the NRP from 1998 itself a member of the "new " Democratic Party, Banno candidate since 2000 in the constituency of 8, he could win but only in 2003 and 2009, 2000 and 2005 but won a seat in the proportional representation block Tōkai.

In the Democratic Party, he served as Deputy Secretary-General (2009), a member of Ichirō Ozawa's shadow cabinet in 2006 ( as the " next prime " of Land, Infrastructure and Transport) as well as in later shadow cabinets as Secretary of State for the Environment, in Shūgiin also a member of the household and the Iraq special Committee. In September 2010, he was in a cabinet reshuffle " Deputy Minister " at the State Department.

In the 2012 election Shūgiin Banno lost his constituency to the Liberal Democrats Tadahiko Itō and also missed re-election by proportional representation block Tōkai.