1. Shizuka Kamei is a former Japanese politician and a former chairman of the Parliamentary League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty.
11 Facts About Shizuka Kamei
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Shizuka Kamei was born in the city of Shobara in Hiroshima Prefecture into a poor family.
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Shizuka Kamei studied at the department of economics at University of Tokyo and worked his way through school through various jobs, including singing at a cabaret.
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Shizuka Kamei was elected in 1979 as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.
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Shizuka Kamei became Minister of Transport in 1994 and Minister of Construction in 1996.
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Shizuka Kamei opposed Koizumi's postal privatization plan and left the LDP in 2005, forming the Kokumin Shinto with four other Diet members.
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On 16 September 2009, Shizuka Kamei became the banking and postal services minister in the newly formed Hatoyama cabinet.
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Shizuka Kamei decided not to run in the 2017 Japanese general election and therefore lost his seat in the House of Representatives.
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Shizuka Kamei is sometimes humorously referred to as Shizuka-chan after a female character in the manga Doraemon who shares his personal name.
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Shizuka Kamei is a six-level blackbelt in Aikido and enjoys golf and oil painting.
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Shizuka Kamei's niece Akiko is a current member of the House of Representatives.