Jun Azumi

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Jun Azumi

| native_name = {{nobold|安住淳}}

| native_name_lang = ja

| image = Minister Azumi.jpg

| caption = Azumi in 2012

| office = Minister of Finance

| primeminister = Yoshihiko Noda

| term_start = 2 September 2011

| term_end = 1 October 2012

| predecessor = Yoshihiko Noda

| successor = Koriki Jojima

| office2 = Member of the House of Representatives

| constituency2 = Miyagi 5th (1996–2024)
Miyagi 4th (2024–present)

| term_start2 = 21 October 1996

| term_end2 =

| predecessor2 = Constituency established

| successor2 =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|1|17|df=y}}

| birth_place = Oshika, Miyagi, Japan

| death_date =

| death_place =

| party = CDP (since 2019)

| otherparty = NPS (1993–1996)
DP 1996 (1996–1998)
DPJ (1998–2016)
DP 2016 (2016–2018)
Independent (2018–2019)

| alma_mater = Waseda University

| children = 2

| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20071015043258/http://www.miyaginet.com/jun-azumi/ Official website]

}}

{{nihongo|Jun Azumi|安住淳|Azumi Jun|born 17 January 1962}} is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). He became deputy secretary-general of the DPJ on 24 September 2012.Daily Yomiuri [http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120924003929.htm Hosono named DPJ policy chief / Azumi, Yamanoi get key posts in bid to maintain pact with opposition] 25 September 2012

Early life and education

Born on 17 January 1962 in Miyagi Prefecture,{{cite web|title=Jun Azumi |url=http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/noda/meibo/daijin/azumi_e.html |publisher=Prime Ministry of Japan |access-date=24 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626161301/http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/noda/meibo/daijin/azumi_e.html |archive-date=26 June 2012 }} Azumi is a native of Oshika District in Miyagi Prefecture and graduate of Waseda University social science department.

Career

Azumi worked at the public broadcaster NHK from 1985 to 1993. He ran for the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993 as an independent (Japan New Party and New Party Harbinger endorsement) in the three-member Miyagi 2nd district, but lost as two Liberal Democrats and one Socialist carried the district for the established parties. He later joined New Party Harbinger and participated in the foundation of the DPJ in 1996. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time as a Democratic candidate in the 1996 election in the new single-member Miyagi 5th district.

=In government=

In September 2011 he was appointed as Finance Minister in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.The Japan Times, "[http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cabinet/cabinet.html Cabinet Profiles: Noda Cabinet] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117135151/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cabinet/cabinet.html |date=17 January 2013 }}", 3 September 2011, p. 3.

On 24 September 2012, Azumi declared that he will leave his post as minister to take a key role in the DPJ as top deputy secretary-general after the elections that will be at the end of 2012 or in 2013.{{cite news|last=Nakamichi|first=Takashi|title=Azumi to Step Down as Japan Finance Minister|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444358804578015951630512308 |access-date=24 September 2012|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=24 September 2012|location=Tokyo}} In the 1 October 2012 cabinet reshuffle, he was succeeded as Minister of Finance by Koriki Jojima.BBC News [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19782282 Japan PM Yoshihiko Noda names new ministers] 1 October 2012