Jun Azumi

This article is about the politician. For the voice actor, see Jun Azumi (voice actor).

Jun Azumi
安住淳


Minister of Finance
In office 2 September 2011 – 1 October 2012
Prime Minister	Yoshihiko Noda
Preceded by	Yoshihiko Noda
Succeeded by	Koriki Jojima
Personal details
Born	(1962-01-17) 17 January 1962 Oshika, Japan
Political party	Democratic Party
Alma mater	Waseda University
Website	Official website

Jun Azumi (安住淳, Azumi Jun, born 17 January 1962) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). He became deputy secretary-general of the DPJ on 24 September 2012.^[1]

Early life and education

Born on 17 January 1962 in Miyagi Prefecture,^[2] Azumi is a native of Oshika District, Miyagi and graduate of Waseda University.

Career

Azumi worked at the public broadcaster NHK from 1985 to 1993. He ran for the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993 as an independent (Japan New Party and New Party Harbinger endorsement) in the three-member Miyagi 2nd district, but lost as two Liberal Democrats and one Socialist carried the district for the established parties. He later joined New Party Harbinger and participated in the foundation of the DPJ in 1996. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time as a Democratic candidate in the 1996 election in the new single-member Miyagi 5th district.

In government

In September 2011 he was appointed as Finance Minister in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.^[3]

On 24 September 2012, Azumi declared that he will leave his post as minister to take a key role in the DPJ as top deputy secretary-general after the elections that will be at the end of 2012 or in 2013.^[4] In the 1 October 2012 cabinet reshuffle, he was succeeded as Minister of Finance by Koriki Jojima.^[5]

Personal life

Azumi is married and has two children.^[2]

References

↑ Daily Yomiuri Hosono named DPJ policy chief / Azumi, Yamanoi get key posts in bid to maintain pact with opposition 25 September 2012
1 2 "Jun Azumi". Prime Ministry of Japan. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
↑ Japan Times, "Cabinet Profiles: Noda Cabinet", 3 September 2011, p. 3.
↑ Nakamichi, Takashi (24 September 2012). "Azumi to Step Down as Japan Finance Minister". The Wall Street Journal (Tokyo). Retrieved 24 September 2012.
↑ BBC News Japan PM Yoshihiko Noda names new ministers 1 October 2012

House of Representatives of Japan
New district	Member of the House of Representatives for Miyagi 5th district (single-member) 1996–present	Incumbent
Preceded by Hiroshi Imazu	Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Security 2009–2010	Succeeded by Ken Okuda
Political offices
Preceded by Kazuya Shinba	Senior Vice Minister of Defence 2010–2011	Succeeded by Katsuya Ogawa
Preceded by Yoshihiko Noda	Minister of Finance 2011–2012	Succeeded by Koriki Jojima
Party political offices
Preceded by Yoshio Hachiro	Chairperson of the Diet Affairs Council of the Democratic Party 2011	Succeeded by Hirofumi Hirano

Finance Ministers of Japan

Minister of Finance (大蔵卿, Ōkura-kyō) under the Daijōkan system of the Meiji Government	Matsudaira Date Ōkubo Ōkuma Sano Matsukata

Minister of Finance (大蔵大臣, Ōkura Daijin) under the Constitution of the Empire of Japan	Matsukata Watanabe Matsukata Watanabe Matsukata Inoue Matsuda Matsukata Watanabe Saionji Sone Sakatani Matsuda Katsura Yamamoto Wakatsuki Takahashi Wakatsuki Taketomi Terauchi Shōda Takahashi Ichiki Inoue Shōda Hamaguchi Hayami Naoharu Takahashi Mitsuchi Inoue Takahashi Fujii Takahashi Machida Baba Yūki Kaya Ikeda Ishiwata Aoki Sakurauchi Kawada Ogura Kaya Ishiwata Tsushima Hirose Tsushima Shibusawa Ishibashi

Minister of Finance (大蔵大臣, Ōkura Daijin) under the Constitution of Japan	Katayama Yano Kurisu Kitamura Yoshida Izumiyama Ōya Ikeda Mukai Ogasawara Ichimanda Ikeda Ichimanda Satō Mizuta Tanaka Fukuda Mizuta Fukuda Mizuta Ueki Aichi Tanaka Fukuda Ōhira Bō Murayama Kaneko Takeshita Watanabe Takeshita Miyazawa Takeshita Murayama Hashimoto Kaifu Hata Hayashi Fujii Takemura Kubo Mitsuzuka Matsunaga Miyazawa

Minister of Finance (財務大臣, Zaimu Daijin)	Miyazawa Shiokawa Tanigaki Omi Nukaga Ibuki Nakagawa Yosano Fujii Kan Noda Azumi Jojima Asō

Italics denote acting Ministers of Finance

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