Rie Saitō

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Rie Saitō ( Japanese 斉 藤 里 恵 , Saitō Rie ; born February 3, 1984 in Aomori , Aomori Prefecture ) is a former Japanese hostess and now a writer and politician .

Life

Saitō has been deaf since she was one year old . She experienced social discrimination in her early childhood and adolescence due to her deafness, which is why she was considered a troublemaker in her school days , started smoking at an early age and even committed shoplifting.

Through her parents, who, despite her handicap, sent Saitō to a regular school like a normal child, she learned lip reading . After finishing school, which she dropped out a year before graduating, she started working as a hostess in Ginza in 2007 . In 2009 Saitō published her autobiography Hitsudan Hostess , which sold around 200,000 times within a year and has since been implemented in a television series of the same name.

She has been politically active for several years and was nominated in the local elections on April 26, 2015 as a candidate for the Minna-no-Tō successor party Nippon o genki ni suru kai ("Assembly to Energize Japan"), which was also founded in 2015 Kita ("City") district elected parliament in Tokyo . She is the first deaf politician to be elected to a Japanese parliament.

She is a single mother.

In the elections in April 2019 , Saitō did not run for re-election and instead wants to run for the Constitutional Democratic Party in the Senate election in the summer by proportional representation.

Publications

  • Rie Saitō: Hitsudan hostess . Kōbunsha , Tokyo 2009, ISBN 978-4-334-97565-4 , pp. 237 (Japanese).
  • Rie Saitō: Hitsudan Hosutesu Rokujūnana No Aikotoba: Aomoriichi No Furyōmusume Ga Ginza No Yoru Ni Hagukunda Mahō No Wajutsu . Kōbunsha, Tokyo 2009, ISBN 978-4-334-97588-3 , pp. 155 (Japanese).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matt Schley: Deaf Japanese Politician Reviews A Silent Voice. Otaku USA Magazine, October 20, 2016, accessed June 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Amy Takahashi: Controversy around 'Hitsudan Hostess' Rie Saito due to jealousy. The Tokyo Reporter , January 3, 2010, accessed June 12, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Sonja Blaschke: Listening with Pen and Paper. Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, November 1, 2016, accessed March 25, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Masami Ito: Single mother with disability vying for seat in Tokyo's Kita Ward. The Tokyo Times , March 24, 2015, accessed June 12, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Atsushi Kodera: Kita Ward Assembly adopts hearing, speaking aids to help legislators with disabilities. The Tokyo Times, May 21, 2015, accessed June 12, 2018 .
  6. ↑ あ の “筆談 ホ ス テ ス” 斉 藤 里 恵 区 議 が 立 民 か ら 参 院 選出 馬 へ . In: Nikkan Gendai Digital. April 17, 2019, Retrieved June 3, 2019 (Japanese).
  7. ↑ 「筆談 ホ ス テ ス」 、 立憲 か ら 参 院 選 に 立 候補 へ . In: Asahi Shimbun Digital. May 7, 2019, Retrieved June 3, 2019 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Saitō, Rie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 斉 藤 里 恵 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese hostess, writer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Aomori , Aomori Prefecture