Takeshi Maeda

Takeshi Maeda
前田 武志
Maeda in 2011
Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
In office 2 September 2011 – 4 June 2012
Prime Minister	Yoshihiko Noda
Preceded by	Akihiro Ohata
Succeeded by	Yuichiro Hata
Member of the House of Councillors
In office 26 July 2004 – 25 July 2016
Constituency	House of Councillors proportional district
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 6 July 1986 – 2 June 2000
Succeeded by	Ryotaro Tanose
Constituency	Nara at-large district (1986–1996) Nara 4th district (1996–2000)
Personal details
Born	(1937-10-22) 22 October 1937 (age 87) Yoshino District, Nara, Empire of Japan
Political party	Democratic
Alma mater	Kyoto University

Takeshi Maeda (前田 武志, Maeda Takeshi, born October 22, 1937) is a retired Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a former member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature).

A native of Yoshino District, Nara, he graduated from Kyoto University and received a master's degree from it. After serving in the House of Representatives for four terms, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2004. In September 2011 he was appointed as Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.^[1][2] However, Maeda left the ministry the following year after a series of censure motions ^[3] were passed by the House of Councillors in April 2012, which required prime minister Noda to dismiss both Maeda and the Minister of Defence Naoki Tanaka in order to get support from the opposition parties to pass his plan to increase Japan's consumption tax rate.^[4] Maeda retired from the House of Councillors after his term expired in 2016.^[5]