Koichi Yamamoto

Kōichi Yamamoto
山本 公一
Official portrait, 2016
Minister of Environment
In office
3 August 2016 – 3 August 2017
Prime MinisterShinzo Abe
Preceded byTamayo Marukawa
Succeeded byMasaharu Nakagawa
Vice Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
In office
29 September 2004 – 21 September 2005
Prime MinisterJunichiro Koizumi
Preceded byHiroshi Imai
Succeeded byYoshihide Suga
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
18 July 1993 – 14 October 2021
Preceded byMulti-member district
Succeeded byJunji Hasegawa
ConstituencyEhime 3rd (1993–1996)
Ehime 4th (1996–2021)
Member of the Ehime Prefectural Assembly
In office
1991–1993
Personal details
Born(1947-09-04)4 September 1947
Uwajima, Ehime, Japan
Died31 October 2023(2023-10-31) (aged 76)
Tokyo, Japan
Alma materKeio University

Koichi Yamamoto (山本 公一, Yamamoto Kōichi, September 4, 1947 – October 31, 2023) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).

Background and profile

A native of Uwajima, Ehime and graduate of Keio University, Yamamoto was the son of Yuichi Yamamoto, the mayor of Uwajima, and a member of the House of Representatives.

Yamamoto was elected to his one term in the assembly of Aichi Prefecture in 1991 and to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993.

His profile on the LDP website:[1]

  • Member, Ehime Prefectural Assembly
  • Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Environment(Hashimoto Cabinet)
  • Senior Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications(Koizumi Cabinet)
  • Deputy Chairman, General Council of LDP
  • Director, Land, Infrastructure and Transport Division of LDP
  • Chairman, Fundamental National Policies Committee of Diet

Koichi Yamamoto died on October 31, 2023, at the age of 76.[2]

Positions

Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi,[3] Yamamoto gave the following answers to the questionnaire submitted by Mainichi to parliamentarians in 2012:[4]

  • in favor of the revision of the Constitution
  • in favor of right of collective self-defense (revision of Article 9)
  • in favor of reactivating nuclear power plants
  • against the goal of zero nuclear power by 2030s
  • in favor of the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma (Okinawa)
  • in favor of evaluating the purchase of Senkaku Islands by the Government
  • in favor of an attitude avoiding conflict with China
  • against the participation of Japan to the Trans-Pacific Partnership
  • against a nuclear-armed Japan
  • no answer regarding the reform of the National assembly (unicameral instead of bicameral)
  • no answer regarding the reform of the Imperial Household that would allow women to retain their Imperial status even after marriage

References

  1. ^ Profile of Yamamoto Kouichi on the LDP website: jimin.jp/english/profile/members/114796.html Archived 2014-12-04 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "元環境相の山本公一氏が死去". Ehime. 31 October 2023. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  3. ^ Nippon Kaigi website
  4. ^ Mainichi 2012: senkyo.mainichi.jp/46shu/kaihyo_area_meikan.html?mid=A38004003003
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of the Environment
2016–2017 		Succeeded by