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Post by asavery on Oct 19, 2007 11:00:22 GMT -5
Name: Hideku Aburi Age: 63 Sex: Male Race: Japanese Political Party: Liberal Democratic Party (actually the more conservative major political party coalition in Japan) Nationality: Japanese Height: 5'9'' Weight: 172 lbs. Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Black Skin Tone: weathered Hair Length: cropped Place Of Birth: Sendai, Japan Year Came Into Office: 2006 Country: Japan Government: democratically elected parliamentary government, with a limited constitutional monarchy
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Post by asavery on Oct 19, 2007 12:09:25 GMT -5
Hideku Aburi was born in the last years of World War Two (1944), shortly before his father, a gunnery officer aboard the Battleship Musashi, died during the Battle of Layte Gulf. His mother remarried an entrepreneur a few years after the war, and Takuma raised Hideku as his own son during those difficult years in Japan. Even so, Hideku shared his true father’s love of the sea, and he attended the Japanese National Defense Academy in 1962. Serving eight years in the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, Hideku resigned in 1974 to join his step-father, now a major industrialist, in business and politics.
During the 1980s Hideku was a younger member of the political revolution in the Liberal Democratic Party, where he became a leading advocate for renewed national defense priorities, expanded engagement in foreign policy and continued close ties with the United States. Following a short stint as a junior official at the Japanese Defense Agency, Hideku traveled to the United States to study at the National Defense University and serve at the Embassy in Washington, DC.
Returning to Japan he acted as a Deputy in the Bureau of Defense Policy, until a new and more liberal government came to power in 1993. Over the next three years Hideku reestablished his business credentials, and published a number of policy and political papers. When the Liberal Democratic Party took back control of the Diet (parliament) in late 1996, Hideku was elected as a member. It was there he became political allies and friends with Junichiro Koizumi. When Koizumi became Prime Minister in 2001, he made Hideku the head of the Japanese Defense Agency.
Under Hideku’s watch, the Agency began to transform its role and mission, culminating it its elevation to Ministry status in 2006. Considering this success, Hideku was ready to retire from government when Koizumi left office. To his surprise, Koizumi tagged him as his successor as leader of the LDP, and with the elections the new Prime Minister.
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