page_title: Bunmei Ibuki
hierarchical_section_title: Bunmei Ibuki
caption_attribution_description: Reunión con el Diputado Bunmei Ibuki, Presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de Japón. Tokyo, Japón. 9 de abril de 2013.
context_page_description: Bunmei Ibuki is a Japanese politician.
  He was born in Kyoto to a family of textile wholesalers who had operated the business since the Edo period. He graduated with a BA from Kyoto University's economics department in 1960. At Kyoto University he was a member of the tennis club. Upon graduation Ibuki became a bureaucrat at the Ministry of Finance. He was dispatched to the Japanese embassy in London in 1965, where he stayed for four years.
  Ibuki entered politics in 1983 at former Finance Minister Michio Watanabe's behest. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and has served in a variety of government positions, including Minister of Labour and National Public Safety Commission chairman.
  He was appointed Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology on 26 September 2006 as a part of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe's first cabinet. In this position, he promoted the controversial revision of the Fundamental Law of Education. He was subsequently appointed as Secretary-General of the LDP in September 2007; less than a year later, he was replaced in that position by Taro Aso and was instead appointed as Minister of Finance.
context_section_description: Bunmei Ibuki (伊吹 文明, Ibuki Bunmei, born 9 January 1938) is a Japanese politician.
  He was born in Kyoto to a family of textile wholesalers who had operated the business since the Edo period.  He graduated with a BA from Kyoto University's economics department in 1960.  At Kyoto University he was a member of the tennis club.  Upon graduation Ibuki became a bureaucrat at the Ministry of Finance.  He was dispatched to the Japanese embassy in London in 1965, where he stayed for four years.
  Ibuki entered politics in 1983 at former Finance Minister Michio Watanabe's behest. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and has served in a variety of government positions, including Minister of Labour (1997~98) and National Public Safety Commission chairman (2000~01).
  He was appointed Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology on 26 September 2006 as a part of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe's first cabinet. In this position, he promoted the controversial revision of the Fundamental Law of Education.  He was subsequently appointed as Secretary-General of the LDP in September 2007; less than a year later, he was replaced in that position by Taro Aso and was instead appointed as Minister of Finance.  He is known for his knowledge of finance and tax and welfare policies. He held the post of Finance Minister for less than two months, however, and was replaced by Shōichi Nakagawa in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Taro Aso, appointed on 24 September 2008.
  On 26 December 2012, Bunmei Ibuki was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan. He presided over the day of his inauguration, the election of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe.
caption: Ibuki with Enrique peǹa Nieto (2013)
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