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Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 09:08:18 JST Minoru Saba

"Kobayashi, 49, tried to dismiss concerns that [he] is too young to become the LDP leader and prime minister, although he acknowledged the challenge of not being widely known among voters"
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240819/p2g/00m/0na/017000c
🔸Only noticed him a couple of weeks ago due to media babble re post-Kishida candidates.
Seems to have the moniker "Koba Hawk" derived from his name and being the hope of young right-wing LDP hawks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takayuki_Kobayashi
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  Ex-Cabinet minister Kobayashi announces bid for ruling party race - The Mainichi
  
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  TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi said Monday that he will run in the ruling party's presidential election
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  Takayuki Kobayashi
  
  Takayuki Kobayashi (小林鷹之, Kobayashi Takayuki; born 29 November 1974) is a Japanese politician who served in the Kishida Cabinet as Minister for Economic Security from 2021 to 2022. Life and career Kobayashi was born in Ichikawa, Chiba and educated at Kaisei Academy. He attended the University of Tokyo and got bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Law in 1999. While at the University of Tokyo, he was captain of the Rowing Club. He received a M.P.P. degree from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2001. He joined the Ministry of Finance in 1999 and worked in the Financial Bureau (ja:理財局), whose main task was to manage government bonds, fiscal investment and loans, and state property. Keizo Hamada, the governor of Kagawa Prefecture, was Kobayashi's boss at the Bureau. From 2007 to 2010, he worked as a diplomat at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C. Political career Election In June 2010, he became the head of the Chiba Prefecture Second Constituency branch of the Liberal Democratic Party, and in December 2012, he was first elected to the House of Representatives...
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  Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 13:43:23 JST Minoru Saba
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  "Kobayashi acknowledges himself as a conservative and was...one of those who nominated Sanae Takaichi...in 2021 LDP presidential election"
  "Kobayashi answered “disagree” to issues such as allowing married couples to have separate surname and same-sex marriages in 2017"
  "Kobayashi said he gave a greeting speech at [former Unification Church] meetings and sent congratulatory telegrams in the past"
  https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15393284
  🔸LDP attempts to change frontman but keeps old songs🙄
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    Kobayashi 1st out of the gate in running for LDP presidential post | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
    
    Former Cabinet minister Takayuki Kobayashi is the first to officially declare his candidacy in what is expected to be a crowded field in the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election, scheduled to be held in September.

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