Katsuya Okada

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In 2016, he remained as leader when the Democratic Party of Japan merged with the Japan Innovation Party to become the Democratic Party.<ref>New opposition party launched with merger of DPJ, smaller party March 27, 2016 Template:Webarchive The Nikkei Retrieved 10 May 2016</ref>

Early life and education

Okada was born on 14 July 1953. He is the second son of Takuya Okada, who is a co-founder of AEON Group.<ref name=bbc>Profile: Katsuya Okada . BBC News. 8 September 2005</ref> His elder brother, Motoya Okada, is the President and CEO of AEON Group. He has a younger brother and a half-sister. A native of Yokkaichi, Mie, Okada graduated from the University of Tokyo with a degree in law, and entered the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. He also did a short course at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in Harvard University.<ref>Centrepiece: Newsletter of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. 23 (1), 2008.</ref>

Political career

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Okada with Hillary Clinton and Stephen Smith in 2009

Okada ran for the House of Representatives at the 1990 general election from LDP, representing Mie Prefecture's third district, and later joined the Takeshita faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, and followed faction leaders Tsutomu Hata and Ichirō Ozawa to join the Japan Renewal Party in 1993.<ref name=bbc/> Through a series of splits and mergers, Okada then became a member of the New Frontier Party, Sun Party, and Minseito, finally entering the DPJ upon its merger with Minseito in 1998.<ref name=bbc/>

He became president of the DPJ on 18 May 2004, and led the DPJ to one of its largest electoral victories in history during the 2004 House of Councillors election. However, he resigned after his party suffered dramatic losses in the September 2005 general election.<ref>Koizumi Clinches Historic Election Victory Template:Webarchive. The Seoul Times. 11 September 2005.</ref>

Okada ran for the presidency in 2009 but lost to Yukio Hatoyama. Following the success of the DPJ in the 2009 general election, Hatoyama selected Okada to be the foreign minister.<ref name=reu>Nishikawa, Yoko; Sieg, Linda; Roddy, Michael (5 September 2009). Key facts about Okada, to be Japan foreign minister Template:Webarchive. Reuters.</ref>

Okada was regarded as a possible successor of Hatoyama when Hatoyama announced his resignation as Prime Minister and DPJ leader in June 2010,<ref>"Japan’s Premier Will Quit as Approval Plummets", by Martin Fackler, The New York Times, 1 June 2010. Retrieved 2 June 2010.</ref> but Okada gave his support to Finance Minister Naoto Kan, who quickly emerged as the likely successor to Hatoyama. Ichirō Ozawa, however, whose resignation had also been reported announced by Hatoyama, was still supporting another less well known possible successor, Shinji Tarutoko, 50, a legislator who leads the environmental policy committee in the lower house of Parliament, a day before the DPJ leadership elections.<ref>"Finance Chief Favored as Next Japanese Leader" Template:Webarchive, by Martin Fackler, The New York Times, 3 June 2010. Retrieved 3 June 2010.</ref> After being selected as the new prime minister, Kan reaffirmed Okada as foreign minister.<ref name="Cabinet Profiles 2010, p. 4">Japan Times, "Cabinet Profiles: Kan's lineup", 9 June 2010, p. 4.</ref>

As foreign minister, Okada was one of the chief participants in negotiations with the United States (US) over the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma on Okinawa. The Foreign Ministry under Okada also confirmed the existence of a long-rumored secret pact between Japan and US which had allowed the US military to carry nuclear weapons into Japanese territory in contravention of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan. The previous administration under the LDP had denied that such a pact existed.<ref name="Cabinet Profiles 2010, p. 4"/>

In a September 2010 cabinet reshuffle, Okada was moved from foreign minister to secretary general of the DPJ.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Okada, who is viewed as an intraparty ally of Prime Minister Naoto Kan, is believed to have been given the role of secretary general in order to secure Kan's influence in the governing party,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> as well as to help force the passage of government bills in parliament.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Okada ran in the DPJ leadership election held in January 2015 after former president Banri Kaieda resigned after losing his seat. Okada won and returned as DPJ leader after a period of nine years.

In 2015, there were allegations made against Okada, saying that he had accepted 240,000 yen ($2,000) in donations from Nisshin Seifun Group Inc. in 2011 and 2012.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2016, he remained as leader when the Democratic Party of Japan merged with the Japan Innovation Party to become the Democratic Party.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Following the party's defeat at the House of Councillors election in July, he announced that he would not seek re-election as leader at the party's annual meeting in September.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2022, Okada was appointed to be the secretary general of the CDP, replacing Chinami Nishimura. Okada currently holds the secretary general position to this day.

He was many times interviewed by Sekai Nippo, the official newspaper of the Unification Church, an anti-communism new religion. He does not support marriage equality.

Other interests

Okada is said to be an avid collector of frog knick knacks, which decorate his office.<ref name=reu/>

Election history

Election	Age	District	Political party	Number of votes	election results
1990 Japanese general election	36	Mie 1st district	LDP	97,290	winning
1993 Japanese general election	40	Mie 1st district	JRP	142,215	winning
1996 Japanese general election	43	Mie 3rd district	NFP	108,690	winning
2000 Japanese general election	46	Mie 3rd district	DPJ	117,868	winning
2003 Japanese general election	50	Mie 3rd district	DPJ	132,109	winning
2005 Japanese general election	52	Mie 3rd district	DPJ	140,954	winning
2009 Japanese general election	56	Mie 3rd district	DPJ	173,931	winning
2012 Japanese general election	59	Mie 3rd district	DPJ	126,679<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	winning
2014 Japanese general election	61	Mie 3rd district	DPJ	120,950<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	winning
2017 Japanese general election	64	Mie 3rd district	Independent	147,255<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	winning
2021 Japanese general election	68	Mie 3rd district	CDP	144,688<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	winning
2024 Japanese general election	71	Mie 3rd district	CDP	137,953<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	winning
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See also

• Aeon Group
• Chunichi Shimbun - Japanese left-leaning local newspaper. His younger brother Masaya Takada is an employee of the newspaper.
• New Frontier Party
• Neoliberalism
• Sekai Nippo

External links

• Template:Official website for Okada