Gen Nakatani

Gen Nakatani
中谷 元
Minister of Defence
Incumbent
Assumed office
24 December 2014
Prime Minister Shinzō Abe
Preceded by Akinori Eto
Personal details
Born 14 October 1957
Kōchi, Japan
Political party Liberal Democratic Party
Alma mater National Defense Academy

Gen[n 1] Nakatani (中谷 元 Nakatani Gen, born October 14, 1957) is a Japanese politician who served as head of the Japan Defense Agency and present primeminister Shinzō Abe [1][2] in the first cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi.

Shigeru Ishiba and Gen Nakatani, ex-ministers of Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi,[3] are the prime movers behind a proposed rearmament of Japan. On May 30, 2013, The ruling LDP Council of National Defense approved the draft of the full-scale rearmament of the country. This would also cause the renaming of the Japan Self-Defense Forces into that of a full army of national defense. They presented a draft reform of the rearmament that was approved and sent to the Government for consideration. Shigeru Ishiba called the current restrictions imposed after the Second World War on the size of the Japanese armed forces as long out of date.

[4] He is now a retired Japan Ground Self-Defense Force officer.

Notes

  1. ↑ Gen is a personal name, not an abbreviation of General.

References

  1. ↑ Ko Shu-ling; J. Michael Cole (6 October 2010). "Security experts warn on China threat". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
  2. ↑ Sachiko Sakamaki; Takashi Hirokawa (26 May 2009). "Japan Should Consider Pre-emptive Strikes, LDP Lawmaker Says". Bloomberg. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
  3. ↑ Nippon Kaigi website
  4. ↑ http://english.pravda.ru/world/asia/06-06-2013/124771-japan_self_defense_forces-0/
Political offices
Preceded by
Akinori Eto		 Minister of Defence
2014–present 		Incumbent