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President Of The Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
The is the highest position within Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party. The current holder of the position is Prime Minister of Japan, Shigeru Ishiba, who was elected to the position on 27 September 2024, following his victory in the 2024 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election, party's presidential election. The previous leader, Fumio Kishida announced his resignation on 14 August 2024, thereby not seeking 2024 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election, reelection. Due to the Dominant-party system, dominance of the LDP in Politics of Japan, Japanese politics, all twenty-four presidents except two (Yōhei Kōno, Yohei Kono and Sadakazu Tanigaki) have also been the Prime Minister of Japan, prime minister of Japan. Elections To be a candidate for the president, one must be a LDP member of the National Diet and must receive at least 20 nominations from other LDP members of the National Diet. The LDP selects its leader via ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shigeru Ishiba
Shigeru Ishiba (born 4 February 1957) is a Japanese politician who has served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since 2024. He has been a member of the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives since 1986 and served as Minister of Defense (Japan), Minister of Defense from 2007 to 2008 and Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan), Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from 2008 to 2009, as well as Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party, secretary-general of the LDP from 2012 to 2014. Ishiba was born into a political family, with his father, Jirō Ishiba, serving as governor of Tottori Prefecture from 1958 to 1974 before later becoming the Ministry of Home Affairs (Japan), Minister for Home Affairs. After graduating from Keio University, Ishiba worked at a bank before entering politics after his father's death. Ishiba was elected to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ex Officio Member
An ''ex officio'' member is a member of a body (notably a board, committee, or council) who is part of it by virtue of holding another office. The term ''ex officio'' is Latin, meaning literally 'from the office', and the sense intended is 'by right of office'; its use dates back to the Roman Republic. According to ''Robert's Rules of Order'', the term denotes only how one becomes a member of a body. Accordingly, the rights of an ''ex officio'' member are exactly the same as other members unless otherwise stated in regulations or bylaws. It relates to the notion that the position refers to the position the ex officio holds, rather than the individual that holds the position. In some groups, ''ex officio'' members may frequently abstain from voting. Opposite notions are dual mandate, when the same person happens to hold two offices or more, although these offices are not in themselves associated; and personal union, when two states share the same monarch. For profit and nonprofi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanzan Ishibashi
was a Japanese journalist and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1956 to 1957. Born in Tokyo, Ishibashi became a journalist after graduating from Waseda University in 1907. In 1911, he joined the ''Tōyō Keizai Shimpo'' ("Eastern Economic Journal") and served as its editor-in-chief from 1925 to 1946 and president from 1941. In the 1930s, Ishibashi was one of the few critics of Japanese imperialism, and became well-known as a liberal economist. From 1946 to 1947, Ishibashi served as finance minister under Shigeru Yoshida. He was elected into the National Diet in 1947, but was purged for openly opposing the U.S. occupation policies; he returned to the Diet in 1952, after which he allied with Ichiro Hatoyama and served as his minister of international trade and industry. Ishibashi succeeded Hatoyama as prime minister in 1956, simultaneously serving as director of the Defense Agency, but resigned soon after due to ill health. Life Ishibashi was born in the Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taketora Ogata 3
Taketora (written: 武虎 or 竹虎) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: * (1888–1956), Japanese journalist and politician * (born 1958), Japanese sumo wrestler * (born 1974), japanese voice actor Fictional characters * Taketora Yamamoto (山本猛虎), a character from the manga and anime '' Haikyu!!'' with the position of wing spiker from Nekoma High {{given name Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taketora Ogata
was a Japanese journalist, Vice President of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper and later a politician. During the war, he joined the Imperial Rule Assistance Association. After the end of the war, he was purged from public service. Later, he became the Chief Secretary of the 4th Yoshida Cabinet, Vice President and then President of the Liberal Party of Japan of Japan, but he died before becoming a prime minister. Life He was born in Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture, in 1888 as the third son of Ogata Dōhei, the secretary of Yamagata Prefecture. At age 4, he went to Fukuoka city because his father became the secretary of Fukuoka Prefecture. He studied at Fukuoka Prefectural Shuyukan High School, where Seigō Nakano was his one-year senior. Of the same age was Daigorō Yasukawa. They later became influential friends. He graduated from Waseda University in 1911 and joined the Tokyo branch of the Osaka ''Asahi Shimbun''. In 1925, Ogata became the editor of the Tokyo ''Asahi Shi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banboku Ōno
was a Japanese politician who was a powerful faction leader within the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the early postwar Japan, postwar period, serving stints as Speaker of the House of Representatives (Japan), Speaker of the House of Representatives, Secretary General of the Liberal Party (Japan, 1945), Liberal Party, and Vice President of the Liberal Democratic Party. Viewed as an archetypical "party politician," as opposed to the "ex-bureaucrat" elected leaders he staunchly opposed, Ōno was affectionately nicknamed "Ban-chan." He was also known for his colorful sayings, such as noting that just as with yakuza gangsters, "politics is all about ''Giri (Japanese), giri'' and ''ninjō''", and "A monkey that falls from a tree is still a monkey, but a politician that loses an election is just a person". Early life Banboku Ōno was born in Yamagata, Gifu, Yamagata city in Gifu Prefecture on September 20, 1890. He attended the Meiji University Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bukichi Miki 01
was a Japanese politician. He was a close friend and ally of Ichiro Hatoyama, and was the key figure in carrying out the "conservative merger" that resulted in the formation of the Liberal Democratic Party. Despite being a powerful conservative politician in the Taishō and Shōwa eras, Miki remarkably never held any cabinet post. He still has a high reputation as the archetype of a behind-the-scenes power broker, and at the zenith of their power there were times when both Kanemaru Shin and Hiromu Nonaka were openly complimented by Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone for having "surpassed Bukichi Miki." Miki's nicknames included "the heckling general," "the wily schemer," and "the great tanuki of Japanese politics." Life before politics He was born in Takamatsu, then in Ehime Prefecture but now in Kagawa Prefecture, as the first son of Komon Miki, an antiques dealer. His family was not related to that of Takeo Miki. In his second year at Takamatsu Secondary, now Kagawa Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo 1st District (1947–93)
Tokyo 1st district (東京都第1区, ''Tōkyō-to dai-ikku'' or 東京1区, ''Tōkyō ikku'') is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in eastern mainland Tokyo and covers central parts of the former city of Tokyo. The district consists of the wards of Chiyoda (which includes the central government buildings) and Shinjuku. As of 2016, 514,974 eligible voters were registered in the district. Before redistricting in 2022, the district included a part of Minato ward which is now in the 7th district. Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of Tokyo 1st district where three Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote. The two main candidates contesting the district until 2009, Banri Kaieda ( DPJ, Hatoyama group) and Kaoru Yosano (August 22, 1938 – May 23, 2017) was a Japanese politician. He was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the Sunrise Party of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatoyama Ichirō
Hatoyama (written: 鳩山, lit. ''dove mountain'') may refer to: People with the surname * Hatoyama family, a prominent Japanese political family ** Kazuo Hatoyama (1856–1911), academic and politician ** Haruko Hatoyama (1861–1938), educator and political matriarch **Ichirō Hatoyama (1883–1959), politician and Prime Minister of Japan ** Hideo Hatoyama (1884–1946), Japanese jurist ** Kaoru Hatoyama (1888–1982), educator, administrator, and wife of Prime Minister Ichirō Hatoyama ** Iichirō Hatoyama (1918–1993), politician and diplomat ** Yasuko Hatoyama (1922–2013), wife of Iichirō, and mother of Kazuko, Yukio and Kunio **Yukio Hatoyama is a Japanese retired politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and Leader of the Democratic Party of Japan from 2009 to 2010. He was the first Prime Minister from the modern Democratic Party of Japan. First elected to the House of Repre ... (born 1947), politician and Prime Minister of Japan ** Kunio Hatoyama (1948–2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
