Hiroshi Kajiyama (politician)

Hiroshi Kajiyama (梶山 弘志, Kajiyama Hiroshi, born 18 October 1955) is a Japanese politician who has represented the Ibaraki 4th District in the House of Representatives since 2000. He has served as Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry since October 2019. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Hiroshi Kajiyama
梶山 弘志
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
Assumed office
25 October 2019
Prime MinisterYoshihide Suga, Shinzō Abe
Preceded byIsshu Sugawara
Personal details
Born (1955-10-18) 18 October 1955
Hitachiōta, Ibaraki, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic Party

Early life

Kajiyama was born in Hitachiōta, Ibaraki. His father, Seiroku Kajiyama, was a prefectural assemblyman who later won a seat in the House of Representatives and rose to the positions of LDP Secretary-General and several Cabinet posts. Kajiyama graduated from Nihon University and joined the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation in 1979, where he worked until 1985. After a stint as his father's secretary from 1985 to 1988, he started a non-ferrous metals trading company and served as its president.[1]

Political career

After his father's death in 2000, Kajiyama successfully ran to take over his father's seat in the 2000 general election. He thereafter won re-election six times.[1]

In 2006, he was appointed as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Administration.[2]

Kajiyama was appointed to serve as State Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in 2012.[1]

In August 2017, he was appointed to serve as minister in charge of administrative reforms, and announced new guidelines on the management of administrative documents. This came in the wake of the Moritomo Gakuen scandal, in which the government was accused of destroying records to cover up a favorable land-sale contract.[3]

In October 2019, he was appointed to serve as Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Minister in charge of Industrial Competitiveness, Minister in charge of International Exposition, Minister for Economic Cooperation with Russia, Minister in charge of the Response to the Economic Impact caused by the Nuclear Accident, and Minister of State for the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation.[1] As METI minister, he announced initiatives to phase out coal power in Japan in favor of renewable energy.[4]

References
  1. "Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry / METI Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry". www.meti.go.jp. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  2. "Hiroshi KAJIYAMA (The Cabinet) | Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet". 202.214.194.139. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  3. Yoshida, Reiji (30 August 2017). "New guidelines governing documents to be put in place by year-end: Kajiyama". The Japan Times. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  4. "METI minister signals a major shift for Japan away from coal and toward renewables". The Japan Times. 3 July 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
House of Representatives of Japan
Preceded by
Seiroku Kajiyama		 Representative for Ibaraki 4th district
2000–present		 Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by
Isshu Sugawara		 Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
2019–present		 Incumbent


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