Aiko Shimajiri
Aiko Shimajiri ( Japanese 島 尻 安伊子 , Shimajiri Aiko ; born March 4, 1965 in Sendai , Miyagi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( DPJ → independent → LDP , Takeshita faction ). She was a Member of Parliament ( Upper House , Okinawa Prefecture ) from 2007 to 2016 and Minister of the Cabinet Office for Special Tasks ( Okinawa & Northern Territories ; Science & Technology; Space) in the third Abe Cabinet from 2015 to 2016 .
Life
Shimajiri, who graduated from Sophia University in 1988 , married in 1989 and had three sons and one daughter between 1990 and 2000. In a by-election in 2004, she successfully ran as a candidate for the Democratic Party (DPJ) for the Naha city parliament . She was re-elected in the 2005 regular election and left the DPJ shortly thereafter.
Shimajiri switched to national politics in the upper house by-election in April 2007 for the vacated seat of the Okinawa Prefecture of Keiko Itokazu ( Socialist Mass Party ), who had resigned for their (failed) candidacy in the 2006 gubernatorial election and entered the regular election in July 2007 the other seat of Okinawa to the House of Lords. In the upper house by-election, Shimajiri ran without party support with LDP- Kōmeitō -support, prevailed with 51.8% of the votes against the candidate of the opposition parties ( DPJ , KPJ , SDP , NVP ), Yoshimasa Karimata (46.3%), and closed join the LDP. In the regular upper house election of 2010 , when the nationally ruling Democrats could not agree on a candidate in Okinawa in the dispute over the US bases and Social Democrats and Communists supported various candidates, it won 47.6% of the vote for a full six years re-elected.
From 2012 to 2013 Shimajiri was Parliamentary State Secretary for Abe's second cabinet in the Cabinet Office and for Reconstruction, and in 2014 she took over the chairmanship of the House of Lords Environment Committee for one year. Since April 2015 she has led the LDP Prefectural Association Okinawa. In October 2015, she appointed Shinzō Abe to his cabinet as Minister of State for Okinawa, the Northern Territories, Science, Technology and Space in a cabinet reshuffle.
In the 2016 upper house election , Shimajiri Okinawa lost with more than 100,000 votes and more than 17 percentage points behind the non-party opposition candidate Yōichi Iha (former member of the prefectural parliament, candidate for governor and mayor of the city of Ginowan). She remained minister until the cabinet reshuffle in August 2016 .
In December 2018, the LDP announced that it would run Shimajiri as a candidate for the April 2019 by-election in the Okinawa 3 constituency . The seat was vacated by Denny Tamaki's election as governor in September 2018. Shimajiri finally succumbed to Tomohiro Yara (Yara 56.5%; Shimajiri 43.5%), supported by the national opposition parties and Governor Tamaki , who cited the referendum in Okinawa in February that year , unlike Shimajiri, against the construction of one new US base in the prefecture.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- House of Lords, MPs: Shimajiri Aiko (Japanese, English )
- Cabinet, Minister in the 97th Cabinet: Shimajiri Aiko (Japanese, Chinese , English )
- Okinawa Liberal Democratic Party : Chairperson (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ^ Yomiuri Shimbun , 2016 Upper House Election Results : Okinawa Prefecture
- ↑ 自 民 、 島 尻 元 沖 北 相擁 立 へ 来 春 の 衆院 沖 縄 3 区 補選 . In: Nihon Keizai Shimbun . December 24, 2018. Retrieved December 24, 2018 (Japanese).
- ↑ Japan's ruling LDP loses two out of two Lower House by-elections in possible harbinger for July polls. In: The Japan Times . April 21, 2019, accessed April 28, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shimajiri, Aiko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 島 尻 安伊子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sendai , Miyagi Prefecture |