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Shizuka Kamei
is a retired Japanese politician served in the House of Representatives from 1979 to 2017. He was a faction leader in the Liberal Democratic Party, but left in opposition to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in 2005 and founded the People's New Party. He is a former chairman of the Parliamentary League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty. Early life He was born in the city of Shōbara in Hiroshima Prefecture into a poor family. He studied at the department of economics at University of Tokyo and worked his way through school through various jobs, including singing at a cabaret. Upon graduation in 1960, he entered Sumitomo Seika, and joined the National Police Agency in 1962. In 1972, he took charge of a number of high-profile cases, including the Red Army Asama-Sanso incident, the Narita Airport incident, and the Tel Aviv highjacking. Kamei is one of the few major politicians to oppose the death penalty, and wrote a book, ''Shikei Haishi ron'', asserting his opposition. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives in 1986, Hatoyama became History of the Democratic Party of Japan#Presidents of DPJ, President of the DPJ, the main opposition party, in May 2009. He then led the party to victory in the 2009 Japanese general election, 2009 general election, defeating the long-governing Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which had been in power for over a decade. He represented the Hokkaido's 9th district, Hokkaido 9th district in the House of Representatives from 1986 to 2012. In 2012, Hatoyama announced his retirement from politics. Since then, he has made large online presence such as on Twitter with his outspoken political views. He generated controversy when he visited Crimea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Police Agency (Japan)
The is the central coordinating law enforcement agency of the Law enforcement in Japan, Japanese police system. Unlike National Police (other), national police in other countries, the NPA does not have any operational units of its own aside from the Imperial Guard (Japan)#Imperial Guard of the National Police Agency, Imperial Guard; rather, it is responsible for supervising Japan's 47 prefectural police departments and determining their general standards and policies, though it can command police agencies under it in national emergencies or large-scale disasters. It is under the National Public Safety Commission (Japan), National Public Safety Commission of the Cabinet Office (Japan), Cabinet Office. As of 2017, the NPA has a strength of approximately 7,800 personnel: 2,100 police officer, sworn officers, 900 guards, and 4,800 civilian staff. History Police services of the Empire of Japan were placed under complete centralized control with the of the Home Ministry (Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumitomo Seika
The is a Japanese corporate group and ''keiretsu'' that traces its roots to the ''zaibatsu'' groups that were dissolved after World War II. Unlike the ''zaibatsu'' of the pre-war period, there is no controlling company with regulatory power. Instead, the companies in the group hold shares in each other, but they are limited to exchanging information and coordinating plans through regular meetings. History The Sumitomo Group traces its roots to a bookshop in Kyoto founded circa 1615 by Masatomo Sumitomo, a former Buddhist monk. Even today, management of the group is guided by his "Founder's Precepts", written in the 17th century. Copper refining made the company famous. Riemon Soga, Masatomo Sumitomo's brother-in-law, learned Western methods of copper refining. In 1590, he established a smelting business, ''Izumiya'', literally meaning "spring shop". Riemon perfected techniques that allowed the extraction of silver from copper ore, something Japanese technology had not previous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junichiro Koizumi
Junichiro Koizumi ( ; , ''Koizumi Jun'ichirō'' ; born 8 January 1942) is a Japanese retired politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics in 2009. He is the List of prime ministers of Japan by time in office, sixth-longest serving Prime Minister in Japanese history. Widely seen as a maverick leader of the LDP upon his election to the position in 2001, Koizumi became known as a neoliberal economic reformer, focusing on reducing Japan's government debt and the privatisation of its Japan Post, postal service. In the 2005 Japanese general election, 2005 election, Koizumi led the LDP to win one of the largest parliamentary majorities in modern History of Japan, Japanese history. Koizumi also attracted international attention through his deployment of the Japan Self-Defense Forces to Iraq, and through his visits to the Yasukuni Shrine th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ikuo Kamei
was a Japanese of the , a member of the in the (national legislature). A native of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Wind
Green Wind was a left-wing political party in Japan. It opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and October 2012 Consumption Tax Hike. It was founded as a parliamentary group in July 2012, and as a political party in November 2012 when Representative Makoto Yamazaki left the Democratic Party and joined the group. On November 17, 2012, the party obtained its second member of the lower house, the House of Representatives, when former Democratic Party Representative Eriko Fukuda joined the party. In 2013, Tomoko Abe, the last remaining member of Tomorrow Party of Japan, joined Green Wind. However, on December 31, 2013, the party was dissolved. Co-leaders The party's four co-leaders were its four members of the House of Councillors: Kuniko Koda, Yasue Funayama, Akiko Kamei, and Kuniko Tanioka 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 Osaka Prefecture, she graduated from the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomorrow Party Of Japan
, also known as the Japan Future Party, was a List of political parties in Japan, Japanese political party, formed on 28 November 2012 by Governor of Shiga Prefecture Yukiko Kada and dissolved in May 2013. Kada created the party as an alternative to the then-ruling Democratic Party of Japan, Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and it quickly merged with former political runner Ichirō Ozawa's People's Life Party. It was the only political party which opposed nuclear power and the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership. After a complete failure at the polls in the 2012 Japanese general election, 16 December 2012 general election the party collapsed, and it officially dissolved in May 2013. History There were talks with Mayor of Nagoya Takashi Kawamura (politician), Takashi Kawamura and former Agriculture Minister Masahiko Yamada to further merge the Tax Cuts Japan into the TPJ as a single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tax Cuts Japan
commonly known as the Zero Nuclear Party in English-speaking countries and as ''Datsu-Genpatsu'' (脱原発, roughly "phase down nuclear power") in Japan, was a short-lived Japanese political party that was formed on 22 November 2012. Nagoya mayor Takashi Kawamura and Masahiko Yamada were co-presidents and Shizuka Kamei served as secretary-general. The party was merged with other groups to form the Tomorrow Party of Japan on November 27, 2012. Presidents of TCJ See also *Genzei Nippon is a regional political party based in Nagoya, Japan and led by the mayor of Nagoya, Takashi Kawamura (politician), Takashi Kawamura. The party was formed by Kawamura in April 2010. After briefly holding several seats in the national legislatur ... References 2012 disestablishments in Japan 2012 establishments in Japan Centrist parties in Japan Defunct political parties in Japan Environmentalism in Japan Libertarian parties in Japan Neoliberal parties Political parties disestabli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's New Party
The People's New Party (国民新党 ''Kokumin Shintō'', PNP) was a Japanese political party formed on August 17, 2005, in the aftermath of the defeat of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Japan Post privatisation bills which led to a 2005 Japan general election, snap election. On March 21, 2013, party leader Shozaburo Jimi announced that he was disbanding the party. History The Kokumin Shinto, originally headed by Shizuka Kamei, included former House of Representatives (Japan), lower house speaker Tamisuke Watanuki, former Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lower house members Hisaoki Kamei, Tadahiro Matsushita, and House of Councillors members Kensei Hasegawa from the LDP and Tamura Hideaki from the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the main opposition. Most of the members of the Kokumin Shinto were formerly members of the Shisuikai (also known as Kamei Faction) of the LDP. Their strong links to the postal lobby forced them to go against Koizumi's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
The , frequently abbreviated to LDP, the Lib Dems, or , is a major conservativeThe Liberal Democratic Party is widely described as conservative: * * * * * and Japanese nationalism, nationalistSources describing the LDP as nationalist: * * * * * * A Weiss (31 May 2018). Towards a Beautiful Japan: Right-Wing Religious Nationalism in Japan's LDP. List of political parties in Japan, political party in Japan. Since its foundation in 1955, the LDP has been in power almost continuously—a period called the 1955 System—except from 1993 to 1996, and again from 2009 to 2012. The LDP was formed in 1955 as a merger of two conservative parties, the Liberal Party (Japan, 1950), Liberal Party and the Japan Democratic Party, and was initially led by Prime Minister of Japan, prime minister Ichirō Hatoyama. The LDP supported Japan's alliance with the United States and fostered close links between Japanese business and government, playing a major role in the country's Japanese eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
