Sumio Mabuchi
| Sumio Mabuchi | |
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| 馬淵 澄夫 | |
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| Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism | |
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In office 17 September 2010 – 14 January 2011 |
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| Prime Minister | Naoto Kan |
| Preceded by | Seiji Maehara |
| Succeeded by | Akihiro Ohata |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
23 August 1960 Nara, Japan |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Alma mater | Yokohama National University |
| Website | Official website |
Sumio Mabuchi (馬淵 澄夫 Mabuchi Sumio?, born 23 August 1960) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
A native of Nara, Mabuchi was born on 23 August 1960. He holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering, which he received from Yokohama National University in March 1984.
Until 2000, Mabuchi worked in private sector and became director of the firm he was working for at age 32. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2003 after an unsuccessful run in 2000. He was appointed senior vice minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism in September 2009.
On 17 September 2010, Mabuchi was named as the new minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism in the reshuffled Naoto Kan cabinet. Mabuchi left prime minister Kan's cabinet on 14 January 2011, after the then-opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) passed a censure motion against him following the leaking of Japanese Coast Guard footage of the 2010 Senkaku boat collision incident. and ran unsuccessfully to replace him in the DPJ presidential election after Kan stepped down, losing to Yoshihiko Noda, who replaced Kan as Prime Minister. After the Democratic Party of Japan suffered a major defeat to the LDP under Noda at Japanese general election, 2012. Noda resigned to accept responsibility for the defeat.
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