Tomoko Abe

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Tomoko Abe

Tomoko Abe ( Japanese 阿 部 知 子 , Abe Tomoko ; born April 24, 1948 in Meguro , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician, a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , for the 12th constituency of Kanagawa . Her previous party affiliations were: Social Democratic Party (SDP) → non-party → Nippon Mirai no Tō → Midori no Kaze → non-party → Democratic Party → Democratic Progressive Party → Constitutional Democratic Party.

Life

Abe attended the high school of the Ochanomizu Women's University and studied at the medical faculty of the University of Tokyo , graduating in 1974. She worked as a pediatrician in various hospitals, temporarily in the 1990s at the Mayo Clinic in the USA, most recently from 1999 in the hospitals of the Tokushūkai Group in Chiba and Kamakura , Kanagawa Prefecture . She is employed there without service after she switched to politics in 2000.

In the Shūgiin election in 2000 , Abe ran for the SDP in the 12th constituency of Kanagawa, which she lost, as in the three subsequent elections, well behind the candidates of the major parties; but she was elected via the proportional representation block South Kantō and has been a member of the Shūgiin since 2000. After Masako Ōwaki's resignation , Abe succeeded her as chairwoman of the SDP's Political Research Council in 2003 .

Before the Shūgiin election in 2012 , Abe left the SDP in November 2012 to join the newly founded Midori no Kaze ("Green Wind"). This did not deny the Shūgiin election in favor of the future party of Japan , and Abe ran for the latter. It was able to surpass the democratic incumbent Ikkō Nakatsuka in the constituency of Kanagawa 12 , but was defeated by the Liberal Democrat Tsuyoshi Hoshino ; with a comparatively narrow constituency defeat, she achieved number 1 on the list of the future party in South Kantō and won their only proportional representation. When the party split shortly after the meeting of the new parliament, Abe remained as the only member from both chambers in the future party. In January 2013, she took over the party leadership from Yukiko Kada. In May 2012 she joined the Midori no Kaze and became vice chairman ( daihyō-daikō ).

After the dissolution of the Midori no Kaze at the end of 2013, Abe joined the Democratic Party before the 2014 Shūgiin election . She was defeated by Tsuyoshi Hoshino by less than 1000 votes, but with this narrow defeat she reached number 1 on the list of Democrats in the South Kantō proportional representation block and was certainly elected. In the split in the Democratic Progressive Party before the 2017 Shūgiin election , she joined Yukio Edano's Constitutional Democratic Party and narrowly won Kanagawa 12.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eric Johnston: Kada steps down as leader of Nippon Mirai, takes adviser role. In: The Japan Times . January 22, 2013, accessed February 1, 2013 .
  2. ↑ 阿部知子衆議院議員が入党,代表代行に就任しました. . Midori no Kaze, May 29, 2013, archived from the original on June 8, 2013 ; Retrieved June 4, 2013 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Election Results Shūgiin 2014, Kanagawa & Minami-Kantō
  4. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : election results Shūgiin 2014, Kanagawa ( Memento from January 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Abe, Tomoko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 阿 部 知 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Meguro , Tokyo Prefecture