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Gen Nakatani (中谷 元, Nakatani Gen, born 14 October 1957) is a Japanese politician who was Director General of the Japan Defense Agency (now Japan Ministry of Defense) in the first cabinet of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in 2001-2002 and was appointed the Minister of Defense by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2014.
Japan's main goal of national defense is the prevention of indirect as well as direct aggression from outside enemies. The Japanese government reformed the Defense Agency to the Ministry of Defense with a ceremony that was attended by then Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and the then-new Minister of Defense Fumio Kyuma.
Much less expensive than traditional X-Ray, MMR was quickly adopted and extensively utilized in some countries, in the 1950s. For example, in Brazil and in Japan, tuberculosis prevention laws went into effect, obligating ca. 60% of the population to undergo MMR screening. [citation needed]
Chest photofluorography, or abreugraphy (better known as mass miniature radiography in the UK and miniature chest radiograph in the US), is a photofluorography technique for mass screening for tuberculosis using a miniature (50 to 100 mm) photograph of the screen of an X-ray fluoroscopy of the thorax, first developed in 1936.
The Japanese Defense Agency was established on 1 July 1954. Until May 2000, it was based in Akasaka (currently occupied by Tokyo Midtown).The JDA was placed under the authority of the Prime Minister's Office under Article 2 of the Defense Agency Establishment Law [17] before it was placed under the Cabinet Office in 2001.
Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency; In office 5 December 2000 – 26 April 2001: Prime Minister: Junichiro Koizumi: Preceded by: Kazuo Torashima: Succeeded by: Gen Nakatani: Member of the House of Representatives; In office 6 July 1986 – 21 July 2009: Constituency: Shizuoka 2nd (1986–1996) Shizuoka 5th (1996–2003) Tōkai PR ...
Director of the Japan Defense Agency: Gen Nakatani: R April 26, 2001 - September 30, 2002 Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs Minister of State (Science and Technology Policy) Kōji Omi: R April 26, 2001 - September 30, 2002 Minister of State for Financial Services Hakuo Yanagisawa: R January 6, 2001 - September 30, 2002
Hideki Tōjō: Prime Minister, Home Affairs Minister, Education Minister, Trade Minister, War Minister, Head of Kodoha Party; also Commander-in-Chief of Japanese Imperial Forces in same period, also led the Keishicho (Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department); also was for some time head of the Munitions Ministry.