Nobuaki Koga
{{Short description|Japanese unionist (born 1952)}}
{{nihongo|Nobuaki Koga|古賀 伸明|Koga Nobuaki|extra=born February 23, 1952}} is a Japanese unionist. From 2009 to 2015, he served as president of Rengo, the largest national trade union federation in Japan, having previously been its general secretary.{{cite news |title=月刊『連合』 バックナンバー 2015年11月号 |url=https://www.jtuc-rengo.or.jp/shuppan/teiki/gekkanrengo/backnumber/201511.html |access-date=21 October 2021 |work=連合 |publisher=Rengo |date=2015 |language=ja}}{{cite news |title=古賀連合会長が１０月退任、後任に神津氏ら浮上 野党再編支援が課題|trans-title=Koga to step down as RENGO president in October; Kozu and others to succeed him, tasked with supporting opposition party realignment |url=https://www.sankei.com/article/20150603-VCWNIUVXYFO4RJ5ACMVW2MVJKQ/ |access-date=21 October 2021 |work=Sankei Shimbun |date=3 June 2015 |language=ja}}
Prior to Rengo leadership
Koga was born in Fukuoka, and studied engineering at the University of Miyazaki and then joined Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd, which is now known as Panasonic. He joined Matsushita Electric Industrial Workers’ Union in April 1975, joined the board of the union in 1986, became general secretary in July 1994 and then president in July 1996. In July 2002 he was elected as president of the Japanese Electrical, Electronic & Information Union (DENKI RENGO), and in September 2004 he became president of the Japan Council of Metalworkers’ Unions (IMF-JC).OECD website [http://www.oecd.org/mcm/50431703.pdf Nobuaki Koga profile]
Rengo leadership
In September 2005 he was elected general secretary of Rengo unopposed,Japan Times [http://info.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20050922a7.html Takagi bids for Rengo leadership September 22, 2005] and in October 2009 he was elected to succeed Tsuyoshi Tagaki as president. He was re-elected in 2011.
Rengo is affiliated with the Democratic Party of Japan, but on June 28, 2012 Koga made a speech at Liberal Democratic Party headquarters stating that Rengo may reconsider its future.The Daily Yomiuri [http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120628005359.htm Rengo may rethink support for DPJ] Retrieved on July 4, 2012The Japan Times [http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120629b3.html#.T_QIbY5JYpo Labor leader hints at cooler DPJ ties] Retrieved on July 4, 2012
References
External links
- Rengo: [http://www.jtuc-rengo.or.jp/rengo/about_us/message.html Message from the Chairman] (Japanese)
- OECD: [http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/21/22/50431703.pdf short biography] (English)
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Category:Japanese trade union leaders
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)