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Arata Takebe
Arata Takebe (born 20 July 1970) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who is serving as a member of the House of Representatives for Hokkaido 12th district since 2012. He is the son of Tsutomu Takebe, who also served as a member of the House of Representatives. Early life and education Takebe was born in Shari, Hokkaido in 1970 and he later attended Sapporo Minami High School. After graduating from the Waseda University Faculty of Law (International Organization Law Seminar), he joined the Industrial Bank of Japan. After leaving the bank in 2000, he studied abroad at the University of Chicago, and completed a master's degree at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Public Policy in 2003. In the same year, he served as secretary to his father Tsutomu Takebe. Political career In the 2012 election, when his father retired, he ran in the Hokkaido 12th district after being recruited by the Liberal Democratic Party's Hokkaido chapter (effectively inh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Representatives (Japan)
The is the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors is the upper house. The composition of the House is established by and of the Constitution of Japan. The House of Representatives has 465 members, elected for a four-year term. Of these, 176 members are elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a Party-list proportional representation, party-list system of proportional representation, and 289 are elected from single-member constituencies. The overall voting system used to elect the House of Representatives is a Parallel voting, parallel system, a form of semi-proportional representation. Under a parallel system, the allocation of list seats does not take into account the outcome in the single seat constituencies. Therefore, the overall allocation of seats in the House of Representatives is not proportional, to the advantage of larger parties. In contrast, in bodies such as the German ''Bundestag'' or the New Zealand Parliament the election of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Kishida Cabinet
The First Kishida Cabinet was the 100th Cabinet of Japan. Formed by Fumio Kishida on October 4, 2021, it had 21 members, including three women. Two ministers, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi, retained their posts from Suga Cabinet, the previous cabinet. The government is a coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito who controlled both the upper and lower houses of the National Diet. After just 37 days it was replaced by the Second Kishida Cabinet following the 2021 Japanese general election, 2021 election, making it the shortest-serving cabinet in Japanese history. Election of the prime minister List of ministers R = Member of the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives C = Member of the House of Councillors (Japan), House of Councillors B = Bureaucrat Cabinet Citation of this table: List of First Kishida Cabinet Members Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Koenkai
are local support networks of National Diet, Japanese Diet members, especially of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). These groups serve as pipelines through which funds and other support are conveyed to legislators and through which the legislators can distribute favors to constituents in return. To avoid the stringent legal restrictions on political activity outside of designated campaign times, ''koenkai'' sponsor year-round cultural, social, and "educational" activities. For example, Tanaka Kakuei used his "iron constituency", or invincible constituency, in rural Niigata Prefecture to build a formidable, nationwide political machine. But other politicians, like Ito Masayoshi, were so popular in their districts that they could refrain, to some extent, from money politics and promote a "clean" image. ''Koenkai'' remained particularly important in the over-represented rural areas, where paternalism, paternalistic, old-style politics flourished an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Japanese General Election
General elections were held in Japan on 27 October 2024 due to the early dissolution of the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet, by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. Voting took place in List of districts of the House of Representatives of Japan, all constituencies, including Proportional representation, proportional blocks, to elect all 465 members of the House of Representatives. The election was held one month after Ishiba took office as prime minister, after winning a heated contest in the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) 2024 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election, presidential election on 27 September, following the resignation of Fumio Kishida as party leader due to his low approval rating amid the 2023–2024 Japanese slush fund scandal, party-wide slush fund corruption scandal. The dissolution of the Diet was held eight days after the prime minister's inauguration an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Ishiba Cabinet
The First Ishiba Cabinet was the 102nd Cabinet of Japan, formed by Shigeru Ishiba on 1 October 2024, following the resignation of Fumio Kishida after the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election on 2024 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election, 27 September 2024. It has 20 members, including two women. The government was a coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito who controlled both the upper and lower houses of the National Diet. After just 41 days it was replaced by the Second Ishiba Cabinet following the 2024 Japanese general election, 2024 election, making it the second shortest-serving cabinet in Japanese history, after the First Kishida Cabinet. Election of the prime minister Cabinet Ministers Citation of this table: List of Ishiba Cabinet Members Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary and Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau Special Advisors to the Prime Minister D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of Education, Culture, Sports, Science And Technology
The is a member of the Cabinet of Japan and is the leader and chief executive of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The minister is nominated by the Prime Minister of Japan and is appointed by the Emperor of Japan. The current minister is Toshiko Abe, who took office on 1 October 2024. List of ministers of education, culture, sports, science and technology (2001–) References Education ministers of Japan, Culture ministers of Japan, Sports ministers of Japan, Science ministers of Japan, {{Japan-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hokkaido Shimbun
The , which is often abbreviated as , is a Japanese language daily newspaper published mainly in Hokkaidō, Japan by . As of January 2025, its morning edition has a circulation of 730,000. It was first published in Sapporo in 1887. See also *Liberalism in Japan Japanese liberalism formed in the nineteenth century as a reaction against traditional society. In the twentieth century 'liberal' gradually became a synonym for conservative, and today the main conservative party in the country is named . The ... References Further reading * External links * * 1887 establishments in Japan Daily newspapers published in Japan Mass media in Sapporo Newspapers established in 1887 Japanese-language newspapers {{Japan-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takayuki Kobayashi
Takayuki Kobayashi (小林 鷹之, ''Kobayashi Takayuki''; born 29 November 1974) is a Japanese politician who served in the Second Kishida Cabinet, Kishida Cabinet as Minister for Economic Security from 2021 to 2022. Life and career Kobayashi was born in Ichikawa, Chiba, and educated at Kaisei Academy. His first application to the University of Tokyo, made in his final year of high school, was unsuccessful, which led him to spend an extra year studying as a Rōnin (student), ronin student to reapply. He succeeded on his second attempt and matriculated at the University of Tokyo in 1994, graduating with a bachelor's degree from the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics and Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law in 1999. While at the university, he served as captain of the rowing team. He joined the Ministry of Finance in 1999 and worked in the Financial Bureau (Japan), Financial Bureau (:ja:理財局), whose main task was to manage government bonds, fiscal investm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Presidential Election
The 2024 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election was held on 27 September 2024 to elect the next President of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), president of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party of Japan for a three-year term. Incumbent LDP President and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on 14 August that he would not run for re-election, amid record-low approval ratings following controversy over a 2023–2024 Japanese slush fund scandal, slush fund scandal involving the party factions Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai, Seiwakai and Shisuikai, both of which disbanded in January 2024. Kishida's Kōchikai also disbanded. Approval ratings were also mired by the party's affiliations with the Unification Church. The 2024 presidential election was the first since the abolition of most of the party's factions in the wake of the slush fund scandal, which led to commentators describing the election's outcome as unusually volatile and unpredictable. Nine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Communist Party
The is a communist party in Japan. Founded in 1922, it is the oldest political party in the country. It has 250,000 members as of January 2024, making it one of the largest non-governing communist parties in the world. The party is chaired by Tomoko Tamura, who replaced longtime leader Kazuo Shii in January 2024. The JCP, founded in 1922 in consultation with the Comintern, was deemed illegal in 1925 and repressed for the next 20 years, engaging in underground activity. After World War II, the party was legalized in 1945 by the Allied occupation authorities, but its unexpected success in the 1949 general election led to the " Red Purge", in which tens of thousands of actual and suspected communists were fired from their jobs in government, education, and industry. The Soviet Union encouraged the JCP to respond with a violent revolution, and the resulting internal debate fractured the party into several factions. The dominant faction, backed by the Soviets, waged an unsu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
