Hidehisa Otsuji
Hidehisa Otsuji | |
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Đuôi thập tú lâu | |
 Otsuji in 2004 | |
| President of the House of Councillors | |
| Assumed office 3 August 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Akiko Santo |
| Vice President of the House of Councillors | |
| In office 30 July 2010 – 26 December 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Akiko Santō |
| Succeeded by | Masaaki Yamazaki |
| Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare | |
| In office 27 September 2004 – 31 October 2005 | |
| Prime Minister | Junichiro Koizumi |
| Preceded by | Chikara Sakaguchi |
| Succeeded by | Jirō Kawasaki |
| Member of theHouse of Councillors | |
| Assumed office 24 July 1989 | |
| Constituency | National PR (1989-2013) Kagoshima at-large (2013-present) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 October 1940 Kaseda, Kagoshima,Japan |
| Political party | Liberal Democratic |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
Hidehisa Otsuji(Đuôi thập tú lâu,Otsuji Hidehisa,born October 2, 1940)is a Japanese politician who serves as thePresident of the House of Councillorssince August 2022. A member of theLiberal Democratic Party,he has been a member of theHouse of Councillorssince 1989, serving asVice President of the House of Councillorsfrom 2010 to 2012 and asMinister of Health, Labour and Welfarefrom 2004 to 2005.
Early life and education[edit]
He was born inKaseda CityinKagoshima Prefectureon the island ofKyūshū.During thePacific War,his father, Shuichi, was a lieutenant commander in theImperial Japanese Navyand captain of thedestroyerYūgiri.In 1943, he went down with the ship in theBattle of Cape St. George.[1]
Otsuji briefly attended theNational Defense Academybut dropped out in 1961 to support his sister after their mother died. He later attended the prestigiousUniversity of Tokyo,but again dropped out.[1]
From his own account, Otsuji was unhappy with university education. Reflecting on his youth as en elderly politician, he noted the social unrest at the time and protests against the government of Prime MinisterKishi,and said that lectures were rarely held and there was no worthwhile education to be had. Instead, he took the time to travel the world and visited close to 80 countries over a period of five years. In 1971 he returned to Japan and officially withdrew from Tokyo University and returned to Kagoshima.[1]
Political career[edit]
Resolving to become a politician, Otsuji was elected to the Kagoshima Prefectural Assembly in 1979. He was defeated in his run for theHouse of Representativesin 1986 but was elected to theHouse of Councillorsin 1989.
He served as Parliamentary Vice Minister in the Management and Coordination Agency in 1992, Parliamentary Vice Minister in the Okinawa Development Agency in 1994 and Senior Vice Minister of Finance in 2001. In 2004 he was appointedMinister of Health, Labour and Welfarein the cabinet of Prime MinisterJunichirō Koizumi,serving as such until 2005.[2]
Otsuji was electedVice President of the House of Councillorsfollowing the2010 House of Councillors election.In December 2012 he resigned to become President of theJapan War-Bereaved Families Associationand served as such until 2014.[3][4]
In August 2022, Otsuji was electedPresident of the House of Councillors.[5]
Otsuji is affiliated to the conservative organizationNippon Kaigi.[6]
Otsuji is also the author of several books, including "Africa Travel Diary" and "Going to Bokemon World." "Bokemon" is a word from the Kagoshima dialect of Japanese meaning "recklessly strong".
References[edit]
- ^abc"Đuôi thập tú lâu プロフィール".otsuji.gr.jp.Hidehisa Otsuji.Retrieved3 August2022.
- ^"Mr. OTSUJI Hidehisa".sangiin.go.jp.House of Councillors, The National Diet of Japan.Retrieved25 July2022.
- ^"Đuôi thập tham viện phó nghị trưởng, từ tùy ý hướng vân える di tộc gặp trường に điều động nội bộ で".nikkei.Nikkei, Inc. 29 February 2012.Retrieved25 July2022.
- ^"Đuôi thập di tộc gặp trường が từ nhậm の ý đồ".nikkei.Nikkei, Inc. 15 May 2014.Retrieved25 July2022.
- ^"Tham Nghị Viện tân chủ tịch quốc hội に tự dân đuôi thập tú lâu thị phó nghị trưởng に lập dân trường bang bác hành thị tuyển ra".www3.nhk.or.jp.NHK. 3 August 2022.Retrieved3 August2022.
- ^Nippon Kaigi website
External links[edit]
- Official websitein Japanese.
- "Tư の thanh xuân thời đại"[My adolescence (archive)].otsuji.gr.jp(in Japanese). Archived fromthe originalon 2005-10-31.
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