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Chaturon Chaisang or Chaisaeng ((タイ語:จาตุรนต์ ฉายแสง), (:t͡ɕaːtùʔron t͡ɕʰǎːjsɛ̌ŋ), born January 1, 1956) is a Thai politician. He was a government member for several terms, serving as Minister of Justice, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Education in the cabinets of Thaksin and Yingluck Shinawatra. In the 1970s, Chaturon was one of the leaders of the leftist, pro-democracy students movement that initiated the October 1973 popular uprising against military dictatorship. After the 1976 Thammasat University massacre and return to authoritarian rule, he joined the illegal Communist Party of Thailand. He later fled to the United States, where he furthered his academic studies, earning a master's degree in economics. After his return to Thailand in 1986, he joined mainstream politics, representing his home province in Parliament for several terms. He repeatedly switched parties, during most of the 1990s he stayed with the New Aspiration Party, in which he served as secretary general from 1997 until his leave in 2000. He then joined the Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT) of Thaksin Shinawatra, and became a member of Thaksin's government in several positions: Minister to the Office of the Prime Minister (2001–02), Minister of Justice (2002), Deputy Prime Minister (2002–05), and Minister of Education (2005–06). After the coup d'état of 19 September 2006, he acted as the leader of the disempowered and disintegrating Thai Rak Thai Party until its forced dissolution by the Constitutional Tribunal in May 2007. By the court's decision he was banned from political activity for five years. In June 2013 he returned to political office, again becoming Minister of Education, in Yingluck Shinawatra's cabinet, representing her Pheu Thai Party. He was again removed from office by a military coup on 22 May 2014. == Education and early political activism == Chaturon was born in Chachoengsao. His father Anand Chaisaeng was a prominent liberal politician who served as Member of Parliament representing Chahoengsao Province for four terms. Chaturon's younger brother and sister became politicians, too. He attended the prestigious Suankularb Wittayalai School. During his studies at the Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, he became involved in the students' movement that initiated the October 1973 popular uprising against the military dictatorship of Thanom Kittikachorn. He was a leader of the ''Pracha Tham'' ("Dharma Party") a leftist students' party at Chiang Mai University. The party won the university elections and he became president of the student council. After the Thammasat University massacre of 6 October 1976, he joined the illegal Communist Party of Thailand and hid its camps in the jungle. During this time he was editor of the communist-affiliated student magazine ''Athipat'' ("Sovereign").〔 With his father's help he then fled to the United States where he continued his studies. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics at the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Master of Arts in economics from The American University in Washington, D.C.. He had mostly completed his Ph.D. studies at the American Studies, but did not complete the dissertation, as he chose to return to Thailand to become a Member of Parliament. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chaturon Chaisang」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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