Yoshihide Suga

Yoshihide Suga
菅 義偉
Yoshihide Suga in April 2013
Chief Cabinet Secretary
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 December 2012
Prime Minister	Shinzō Abe
Preceded by	Osamu Fujimura
Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
In office 26 September 2006 – 27 August 2007
Prime Minister	Shinzō Abe
Preceded by	Heizō Takenaka
Succeeded by	Hiroya Masuda
Personal details
Born	6 December 1948 Yuzawa, Akita, Japan
Alma mater	Hosei University

Yoshihide Suga (菅 義偉 Suga Yoshihide, born December 6, 1948) is a Japanese politician currently serving as Chief Cabinet Secretary. He previously served as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications in the cabinet of Shinzō Abe until August 2007.

with Ichita Yamamoto and Satsuki Katayama (September 19, 2006)

He was born in Ogachi (now Yuzawa), Akita Prefecture and obtained an LL.B. from Hosei University in Tokyo. He served as a secretary to Diet member Hikosaburō Okonogi for eleven years, then as secretary to the Minister of International Trade and Industry in 1984 and later as a member of the Yokohama city council.

Suga was elected to the Diet of Japan in 1996. Originally a member of the Obuchi faction, he left the faction after refusing to support Obuchi in the 1998 party elections. He also refused to participate in the no confidence motion against Yoshirō Mori in 2000 and better relations with China and Korea as leader.

Affiliated to the openly-negationist organisation Nippon Kaigi,^[1] Suga has formed a team to reexamine the "background" of the Kono Statement of 1993.^[2]

Suga has been supportive of aggressive measures by the Bank of Japan to counter deflation.^[3]

References

1. "Abe’s reshuffle promotes right-wingers" - Korea Joongang Daily - 2014/09/05
2. "Japan to review lead-up to WW2 comfort women statement". www.bbc.com. The BBC. 28 February 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
3. "Government Applauds BOJs Step Into Negative Territory". Japan Times. 13 March 2016.

External links

• Official website (Japanese)