Hirotaka Akamatsu | |
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| Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan | |
| 1 November 2017 | |
| Speaker | Tadamori Oshima |
| Tatsuo Kawabata | |
26 December 2012 - 21 November 2014 | |
| Speaker | Bunmei Ibuki |
| Seishir? Et? | |
| Tatsuo Kawabata | |
| Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries | |
16 September 2009 - 8 June 2010 | |
| Yukio Hatoyama | |
| Shigeru Ishiba | |
| Masahiko Yamada | |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| 18 February 1990 | |
| Constituency | Aichi-5th (1996-2005, 2009-2012, 2014-present) T?kai PR (2005-2009, 2012-2014) Aichi-6th (1990-1996) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 May 1948 Nagoya, Aichi, Japan |
| Political party | Constitutional Democratic |
| Other political affiliations | DP (2016-2017, split) DPJ (1996-2016, merger) SDP (Jan-Sep 1996) JSP (1966-1996, name change) |
| Alma mater | Waseda University |
| Website | go-akamatsu |
Hirotaka Akamatsu ( Akamatsu Hirotaka, born May 3, 1948) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
Life and career
A native of Nagoya and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the first of his three terms in the Aichi Prefectural Assembly and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party.
He was appointed Minister of Agriculture in 2009. In April 2010, he skipped the traditional visit by legislators to Ise Jingu, opting instead to take a holiday in Mexico with his wife. While he was on vacation, Japan suffered a large outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. His response to the outbreak was widely criticized and the Ministry of Agriculture apologized on his behalf on May 31.[1] The Hatoyama government collapsed in June and Akamatsu was not reappointed.
Akamatsu is the current Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives. He was also previously Vice Speaker between 2012 and 2014.
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-12-22. Retrieved .CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- . ? (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved .
External links
- Official website in Japanese.
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