Hirohisa Fujii

Hirohisa Fujii
藤井 裕久
Minister of Finance of Japan
In office 16 September 2009 – 6 January 2010
Prime Minister	Yukio Hatoyama
Preceded by	Kaoru Yosano
Succeeded by	Naoto Kan
In office 28 April 1994 – 30 June 1994
Prime Minister	Tsutomu Hata
Preceded by	Himself
Succeeded by	Masayoshi Takemura
In office 9 August 1993 – 28 April 1994
Prime Minister	Morihiro Hosokawa
Preceded by	Yoshiro Hayashi
Succeeded by	Himself
Personal details
Born	(1932-06-24) 24 June 1932 Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Political party	Democratic Party of Japan
Alma mater	University of Tokyo

Hirohisa Fujii (藤井 裕久, Fujii Hirohisa, born 24 June 1932) is a Japanese politician who is a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) and Secretary General of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).

Biography

A native of Tokyo, Fujii was born on 24 June 1932.^[1] He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1955 with a law degree.^[1] He is the former official of the ministry of finance. He was elected to the House of Councilors for the first time in 1977 as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. In 1993 he joined the formation of the Japan Renewal Party, which later became part of DPJ.^[2]

In September 2009 he became the minister of finance after the election of Yukio Hatoyama as Prime Minister.^[3]

Fujii abruptly announced his resignation as finance minister on 5 January 2010, and it was reluctantly accepted by Prime Minister Hatoyoma a day later. Fujii had been suffering from high blood pressure and exhaustion, so he claimed that his deteriorating health forced him to resign from the high-stress position of finance minister.^[4] However, some Japanese political analysts believed that Fujii lost a power struggle with Democratic Party of Japan chairman Ichirō Ozawa, and henceforth resigned.^[5] On 7 January 2010, Naoto Kan replaced Fujii as finance minister.^[6]

References

External links

• Official website in Japanese.