Tatsuo Hirano
is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kitakami, Iwate and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in 1977, attending the Iowa State University in the United States as a ministry official. In 2001, he left the ministry and was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time. On July 5, 2011, after the abrupt resignation of Ryū Matsumoto, Hirano was named the Minister of State for Disaster Management, in the aftermath of the Great East Japan earthquake in his native Tōhoku region. He was reappointed to the post in September 2011 in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.''Japan Times ''The Japan Times'' is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper. It is published by , a subsidiary of News2u Holdings, Inc.. It is headquartered in the in Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Hi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tatsuo Hirano - World Economic Forum On East Asia 2012 Crop
Tatsuo (written: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese actor *, Japanese engineer *Tatsuo Fukuda (福田達夫, born 1967), Japanese politician *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese automotive engineer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese writer, poet and translator *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese artist *Tatsuo Itoh, American academic *, Japanese water polo player *, Japanese judge *, Japanese singer-songwriter *, Japanese politician *, Japanese diplomat and writer *, Japanese sport wrestler *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese cross-country skier *, Japanese computer scientist *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese writer *, Japanese linguist *, Japanese sport wrestler *, Japanese anime director *, Japanese politician *, Japanese karateka *, Japanese sprinter *, Japanese cinematographer *, Japanese karateka *, Japanese decathlete *, Japanese ornithologist and academic *, Japanese ski jumper ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hideo Hiraoka
is a Japanese politician and lawyer who served in the House of Representatives from 2000 to 2012, and as Minister of Justice from 2011 to 2012. He was a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. As a Representative, he represented the 2nd District of Yamaguchi prefecture. Early life A native of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Hiraoka passed the bar exam and civil service exam prior to his graduation at the University of Tokyo. In 1976 he entered the Ministry of Finance which he joined before resigning in 1998 after working in the National Tax Agency's corporate tax department. Political career In 2000, after leaving the ministry, he was elected to a seat of the House of Representatives for the first time; the district he represented, Yamaguchi Prefecture's No. 2 district, was previously a stronghold for the rival Liberal Democratic Party. Following a large-scale upturn by the Liberal Democratic Party, Hiraoka lost his seat by 588 votes, remaining in the Lower House through a process k ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Members Of The House Of Councillors (Japan)
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Takanori Yokosawa
Takanori (written: 貴教, 貴紀, 貴徳, 貴則, 孝敬, 孝紀, 孝徳, 孝典, 孝憲, 孝法, 孝則, 隆典, 隆則, 陽功, 聖典, 雅男, 崇典 or 鎬則) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese composer and arranger *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese neurosurgeon *, Japanese mixed martial artist *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese boxer *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese actor, film director and singer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese Nordic combined skier *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese singer and actor *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese electrical engineer and composer *, Japanese voice actor and actor *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese triple jumper *, Japanese sumo wrestler {{given name Japanese masculine given names ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Iwate At-large District (House Of Councillors)
The Iwate at-large district (岩手県選挙区, ''Iwate-ken senkyo-ku'') is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It consists of Iwate Prefecture and elects two Councillors, one every three years, making it one of the decisive single-member districts. The Councillors currently representing Iwate are: * Eiji Kidoguchi Eiji Kidoguchi is a Japanese politician who was a member of the House of Councillors of Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is ... (elected as an independent in 2016 and joined the People's Life Party immediately after the election; term ends in 2022). * (elected as an independent in 2019; term ends in 2025). Elected Councillors ''Party affiliations as of election day; #: resigned; †: died in office.'' Recent election results ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yoshinori Takahashi
Yoshinori is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Yoshinori can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *義徳, "justice, virtue" *義憲, "justice, constitution" *義法, "justice, method" *義教, "justice, teach" *義典, "justice, law code" *義紀, "justice, chronicle" *義礼, "justice, manners" *佳規, "skilled, measure" *佳徳, "skilled, virtue" *佳憲, "skilled, constitution" *善載, "virtuous, to carry" *吉紀, "good luck, chronicle" *吉典, "good luck, law code" *良紀, "good, chronicle" *恭徳, "respectful, virtue" The name can also be written in hiragana よしのり or katakana ヨシノリ. Notable people with the name *, Japanese footballer *Yoshinori Fujita (藤田 圭宣, born 1976), Japanese voice actor *, Japanese footballer *Yoshinori Kanada (金田 伊功, 1952–2009), Japanese animator * Yoshinori Kitase (北瀬 佳範, born 1966), Japanese game producer *Yoshinori Kobayashi (小林 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Takumi Nemoto
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kōriyama, Fukushima and graduate of the University of Tokyo he joined the Ministry of Construction (which is now part of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport) in 1974. Leaving the ministry in 1991 he was elected to the Diet for the first time in 1993. Nemoto was appointed as Minister for Reconstruction in the Second Abe Cabinet on 26 December 2012. Nemoto has served as the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare from 2 October 2018 to 11 September 2019. As a member of a parliamentary committee responding to a petition advocating a law prohibiting businesses from forcing female workers to wear high-heeled shoes (KuToo movement), he expressed that it was "necessary and reasonable" to mandate this for female workers. See also * KuToo movement The #KuToo movement is an ongoing movement in Japan against the high ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Masaharu Nakagawa (House Of Representatives)
is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. A native of Matsusaka, Mie and graduate of Georgetown University in the United States he was elected for the first time in 1996 after serving in the local assembly of Mie Prefecture. In September 2011 he was appointed as Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.Fukada, Takahiro,Society must value overseas study: Nakagawa, ''Japan Times ''The Japan Times'' is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper. It is published by , a subsidiary of News2u Holdings, Inc.. It is headquartered in the in Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo. History ''The Japan Times'' was launched b ...'', 24 September 2011, p. 2. Notes References * External links Official websitein Japanese. Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Georgetown Unive ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (politician)
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and a member of the House of Representatives. He also served as Minister of the Environment from October 2021 to August 2022. Biography Yamaguchi is a native of Aioi, Hyōgo. He is an only child who was raised by his father—a dentist—and his father's sister. He excelled as a tennis star in his student years and has been avid player since. After graduating from the faculty of law of the University of Tokyo in 1978, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1979 and received a Ph. D from SAIS at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consiste ... in the United States while an attache to the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C. When living in the U.S., he took up golf. Years prior to pursu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yoshinori Suematsu
is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Overviews A native of Kitakyūshū and graduate of Hitotsubashi University, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1980, receiving a master's degree from Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the n ... while in the ministry. Leaving the ministry in 1994, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996. References * External links * in Japanese. 1956 births Living people People from Kitakyushu Hitotsubashi University alumni Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan politicians Democratic Party of Japan politicians Members of the House of Representatives from Tokyo 21st-cen ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |