Yasushi Kaneko
Yasushi Kaneko is a Japanese politician who served as Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications from October 2021 to August 2022. He is serving in the House of Representatives as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Career
A native of Kuma District, Kumamoto and graduate of Waseda University, Kaneko was elected for the first time in 2000 as an independent. He later joined the LDP.His profile on the LDP website:
- Secretary to a Diet Member
- Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
- Senior Vice-Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
- Deputy Chairman, Policy Research Council of LDP
- Director, Youth Division of LDP
- Chairman, Committee on Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Positions
Kaneko is affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, and a member of the following right-wing groups at the Diet:- Nippon Kaigi Diet discussion group
- Conference of parliamentarians on the Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership - NB: SAS a.k.a. Sinseiren, Shinto Political League, Shinto Seiji Renmei Kokkai Giin Kondankai
- Conference to consider the true human rights
- Conference of young parliamentarians supporting the idea that the Yasukuni Shrine is a true national interest and desire for peace
- in favor of the revision of the Constitution
- in favor of right of collective self-defense
- in favor of reform of the National assembly
- 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
- no answer regarding the evaluation of the purchase of Senkaku Islands by the Government
- in favor of an effort to avoid conflict with China
- against the participation of Japan to the Trans-Pacific Partnership
- against a nuclear-armed Japan
- against the reform of the Imperial Household that would allow women to retain their Imperial status even after marriage