Yoshimi Watanabe

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yoshimi Watanabe
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Mar 17, 1952(1952-03-17)
Age	72
Birthplace	Nasushiobara
Country	Japan
Birth City	Tochigi Prefecture
Horoscope	Pisces

Yoshimi Watanabe Biography

Yoshimi Watanabe is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 17, 1952 in Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Yoshimi Watanabe, also known as Du Bian Xi Mei / Watanabe Yoshimi (born 17 March 1952), is a Japanese politician. He was formerly a member of Nippon Ishin no Kai and later the founderof Your Party. From 1996 to 2014, he was a member of Congress. In 2016, he returned to the Diet (national legislature), as a member of House of Councillors.

Your Party was formed by Watanabe as a splinter of the Liberal Democratic Party before the 2009 general elections. Although his party was founded on the platform of downsizing Japan’s bureaucracy and won only five seats in election, it was a huge victory for the Democratic Party of Japan. With a platform that emphasized deregulation and halving corporate tax rates, the party moved forward into 2010. His party was popular with professionals from the upper middle class and private investors.

In January 2012, Watanabe announced that Your Party would join forces with Osaka governor Toru Hashimoto’s political group Osaka Ishin-no-kai, and praised Hashimoto’s economic reform efforts in Osaka. He announced that Your Party would sever ties with Hashimoto’s Japan Restoration Party in May 2013 after Hashimoto made controversial comments regarding comfort women being a necessary part of World War II and suggesting that American servicemen use the Japanese sex industry to keep their urges under control.

Watanabe gave the following answers to the questionnaire submitted by Mainichi to parliamentarians in 2014:

He supported Yuriko Kike in 2008 LDP leadership elections, which were won by Taro Aso.

Yoshimi Watanabe Net Worth

Yoshimi Watanabe is one of the richest Politician from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yoshimi Watanabe 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After the death of his father in 1995, Watanabe was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1996. He represented the Tochigi 3rd District, which was a new seat created in his father’s old constituency in Tochigi Prefecture. Watanabe continued representing the district in five more general elections, before being defeated in 2014.

Prime Minister Shinzo abe appointed him to head an administrative reform commission to study the possibility of implementing the Japanese doshusei federal system. He served in that capacity from 2006 to 2007. Cabinet of Yasuo Furuda was Minister in Charge of Financial Services and Minister in Charge of Administrative Reform from August 2007 to August 2008. He advised the U.S. government that public funds should be used to address the subprime mortgage crisis.

Your Party won ten seats in the House of Councillors in the 2010 election, the third-strongest showing behind the LDP and DPJ. Watanabe planned to use his party’s popularity to push for fiscal reforms, stating: “Our priority is anti- deflation legislation because Japan’s economy faces the risk of a double-dip recession. We want to revise the BOJ law so the central bank and the government can agree on a goal of 2 percent inflation within two to three years.” Watanabe was chosen as the Japanese public’s most preferred candidate for prime minister in a July 2010 poll.

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Yoshimi Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Yoshimi Watanabe celebrates birthday on March 17 of every year.