Akihiro Ota

Akihiro Ota
太田 昭宏
Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
In office 26 December 2012 – 7 October 2015
Prime Minister	Shinzō Abe
Preceded by	Yuichiro Hata
Succeeded by	Keiichi Ishii
Personal details
Born	October 6, 1945 Shinshiro, Aichi, Japan
Political party	Komeito Party, Liberal Democratic Party
Alma mater	Kyoto University

Akihiro Ota (太田 昭宏 Ōta Akihiro, born October 6, 1945) is a Japanese politician of the Komeito Party. He was a member of the House of Representatives in the National Diet (national legislature). In 2006 Ota became the president of Komeito Party, replacing Takenori Kanzaki. A native of Shinshiro, Aichi, Ota attended Kyoto University and received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering and a Master of Engineering degree in 1971. In April 1971, he got into the newspaper office of New Komeito Party and acted a journalist of Komei Shimbun to take charge of the National Diet. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993 after an unsuccessful run in 1990. In the Japanese general election, 2009 he led his party to a major defeat at the hands of the left, losing power to the Democratic Party of Japan. New Komeito lost ten seats, including Ota's. He was replaced as party leader by Natsuo Yamaguchi on 8 September 2009.^[1] Ota is also said to be a member of the Alliance for Promoting the Assessment of a New Constitution which promotes constitutional revision..^[2]

References

1. The Japan Times Ailing New Komeito taps policy chief as new boss September 8 2009 Retrieved on August 8 2012
2. http://www.japanfocus.org/events/view/170

• 政治家情報 〜太田 昭宏〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 3 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-20. External link in |work= (help)

External links

• Official website in Japanese.