Yoshio Hachiro

Yoshio Hachiro
Yoshio Hachiro
鉢呂吉雄
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
	In office; 2 September 2011 – 11 September 2011
Prime Minister	Yoshihiko Noda
Preceded by	Banri Kaieda
Succeeded by	Osamu Fujimura (acting); Yukio Edano
Member of the House of Councillors
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 26 July 2016
Preceded by	Seat established
Constituency	Hokkaido
Member of the House of Representatives
	In office; 10 November 2003 – 16 November 2012
Preceded by	Shizuo Satō
Succeeded by	Hiroyuki Nakamura
Constituency	Hokkaido-4th
	In office; 19 February 1990 – March 2003
Constituency	Hokkaido-8th (1996–2003); Hokkaido-3rd (1990–1996)
Personal details
Born	25 January 1948 (age 76); Shintotsukawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Political party	CDP
Other political; affiliations	Democratic (2016–2018, split); DPJ (1996–2016, merger); SDP (1996); JSP (1990–1996, name change); Independent (1990);
Alma mater	Hokkaido University
Website	Official website

Yoshio Hachiro (鉢呂吉雄, Hachiro Yoshio, born 25 January 1948) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature).

Overview

A native of Kabato District, Hokkaidō and graduate of Hokkaido University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990 as an independent. He later joined first the Japan Socialist Party and then the DPJ. In 2003 he left the Diet to run for governorship of Hokkaido, which was unsuccessful. In the same year he ran for the Hokkaido 4th district in the House of Representatives and was elected. In September 2011 he was appointed as Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.^[1]

He resigned after being criticised for making controversial comments during his visit to the exclusion zone of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on 9 September. He compared the vicinity of the plant to a ghost town,^[2] and on the previous day, jokingly mimicked rubbing his jacket on a journalist while telling him "I'll give you radiation."^[3]

Hachiro lost re-election in the 2012 general election. He recontested his old seat in 2014, but narrowly lost to the incumbent MP. He ran for a Hokkaido seat in the 2016 House of Councillors election, successfully obtaining the third seat allocated for the prefecture.^[4] When the Democratic Party merged with the Party of Hope in May 2018 to form the Democratic Party for the People, Hachiro did not join the new party and moved the CDP instead.^[5]

References

^ Japan Times, "Cabinet Profiles: Noda Cabinet Archived 17 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine", 3 September 2011, p. 3.
^ Kyodo News, ""Hachiro sorry for calling Fukushima plant area 'ghost town' | Kyodo News". Archived from the original on 10 September 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2011.", 9 September 2011
^ Japan Times, "[1]", 10 September 2011.
^ "選挙区開票速報：北海道ー2016参議院" [Hokkaido at-large district election results, 2016 House of Councillors election] (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
^ "国民民主党６２人参加「野党第１党」に届かず" (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun. 7 May 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018.

External links

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Official website

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[1] Japan Times, "Cabinet Profiles: Noda Cabinet Archived 17 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine", 3 September 2011, p. 3.

[2] Kyodo News, ""Hachiro sorry for calling Fukushima plant area 'ghost town' | Kyodo News". Archived from the original on 10 September 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2011.", 9 September 2011

[3] Japan Times, "[1]", 10 September 2011.

[elect16-4] "選挙区開票速報：北海道ー2016参議院" [Hokkaido at-large district election results, 2016 House of Councillors election] (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 9 March 2018.

[5] "国民民主党６２人参加「野党第１党」に届かず" (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun. 7 May 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018.

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