Tamisuke Watanuki
Tamisuke Watanuki (綿貫 民輔, Watanuki Tamisuke, born 30 April 1927) is a Japanese politician from the Toyama Prefecture. He started his own export-import company at age 28.
Tamisuke Watanuki | |
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綿貫 民輔 | |
 Watanuki in 2009 | |
| Speaker of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 4 July 2000 – 10 October 2003 | |
| Preceded by | Sōichirō Itō |
| Succeeded by | Yōhei Kōno |
| Minister of Construction | |
| In office 28 February 1990 – 29 December 1990 | |
| Prime Minister | Toshiki Kaifu |
| Preceded by | Shōzō Harada |
| Succeeded by | Yūji Ōtsuka |
| Director-General of the National Land Agency | |
| In office 22 July 1986 – 6 November 1987 | |
| Prime Minister | Yasuhiro Nakasone |
| Preceded by | Heihachirō Yamazaki |
| Succeeded by | Seisuke Okuno |
| Director-General of the Hokkaido Development Agency and the Okinawa Development Agency | |
| In office 22 July 1986 – 6 November 1987 | |
| Prime Minister | Yasuhiro Nakasone |
| Preceded by | Raishirō Koga |
| Succeeded by | Shigeru Kasuya |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 30, 1927 Nanto, Toyama, Japan |
| Political party | Liberal Democratic Party (1969-2005) People's New Party (2005–2013) |
| Alma mater | Keio University |
He graduated from the Department of Economics at Keio University and ran for the Prefectural Assembly in 1959. He was elected to the Diet in 1969 as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.[1]
He served as Vice Minister of International Trade and Industry in 1975 in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Miki, and as Vice Minister of the Post Office under Prime Minister Fukuda, as well as some other cabinet positions through the 1980s. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives from July 2000 to November 2003.[2]
He vigorously opposed Prime Minister Koizumi's plan to privatize the national post office and formed the People's New Party in 2005 to oppose the plan.[3] Although Koizumi's party handily won a strong majority in the elections on 11 September 2005, Watanuki crushed the challenger in his district.[4]
References
- Watanuki's official website Archived 2010-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- An article in the Japan Times.
- A report on the postal reform.
- A report on the 2005 Upper House Elections. (Note: This report is entitled as UPPER House Election, which is wrong. This is a LOWER House Election.)