Shizuka Kamei

Shizuka Kamei
亀井 静香
Kamei in 2010
Minister of State for Financial Services
In office
16 September 2009  11 June 2010
Prime MinisterYukio Hatoyama
Naoto Kan
Preceded byKaoru Yosano
Succeeded byShōzaburō Jimi
Minister of Construction
In office
7 November 1996  11 September 1997
Prime MinisterRyutaro Hashimoto
Preceded byEiichi Nakao
Succeeded byTsutomu Kawara
Minister of Transport
In office
30 June 1994  8 August 1995
Prime MinisterTomiichi Murayama
Preceded byNobuaki Futami
Succeeded byTakeo Hiranuma
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
8 October 1979  28 September 2017
Preceded byYoshito Fukuoka
Succeeded byKoji Satō
ConstituencyHiroshima 3rd (1979–1996)
Hiroshima 6th (1996–2017)
Personal details
Born (1936-11-01) 1 November 1936
Shōbara, Hiroshima, Japan
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
LDP (1979–2005)
PNP (2005–2012)
TCJ (2012)
TPJ (2012)
Green Wind (2012–2013)
Children5
RelativesIkuo Kamei (brother)
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
WebsiteOfficial website

Shizuka Kamei (亀井 静香, Kamei Shizuka, born 1 November 1936) is a retired Japanese politician served in the House of Representatives from 1979 to 2017. He was a faction leader in the Liberal Democratic Party, but left in opposition to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in 2005 and founded the People's New Party.

He is a former chairman of the Parliamentary League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty.