Shuji Ikeguchi (池口 修次, Ikeguchi Shūji, born November 10, 1949) 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 Kiso, Nagano and graduate of Waseda University, he joined Honda in 1972 and was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2001.
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Biography
editBorn in Okuwa Village, Kiso-gun, Nagano Prefecture, he graduated from Matsumoto Fukashi High School in Nagano Prefecture in 1968, graduated from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University in 1972, and joined Honda Motor Co.[1]
After serving as chairman of the Honda Giken Labor Union, president of the All Honda Federation of Labor, central executive committee member of the Automobile Federation of Japan, and vice president of the Automobile Federation of Japan, he ran in the 19th ordinary election for the House of Councilors in 2001 from the proportional district, officially recognized by the Democratic Party of Japan, and won his first election.
In 2007, he became Chairman of the Special Committee on the Establishment of Political Ethics and the Election System, succeeding Hiroshi Suzuki, who resigned due to ill health.
In September 2010, he was appointed as Vice Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (in charge of disaster countermeasures, national land planning, and social infrastructure development excluding cities and rivers) in the first reshuffled cabinet of Naoto Kan, and served until the second reshuffled cabinet of Naoto Kan.
In June 2012, he succeeded Yuichiro Haneda, who became Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism, as Chairman of the Diet Committee of the House of Councillors.[2]
He did not run in the 23rd regular House of Councillors election in 2013, but the Federation of Automobile Manufacturers' Associations (FOMA) nominated Tetsushi Isozaki as his successor and elected him to the post.
References
edit- 政治家情報 〜池口 修次〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2007-12-08. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
- ^ "中国艦船、海自艦船にレーダー照射 1月30日に政府は抗議". 日本経済新聞. 2013-02-05. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
- ^ "「尖閣国有化前から複数回、レーダー照射あった」日中関係悪化を懸念して民主党政権公表せず？". J-CASTニュース. 2013-02-07. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
External links
edit- Official website in Japanese.
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