Akiko Kamei

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Akiko Kamei ( Japanese 亀 井 亜 紀 子 , Kamei Akiko ; born May 14, 1965 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( New People's Party → non-party → Green Wind → Progressive Democratic Party → Constitutional Democratic Party ). Since 2017 she has been a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , for the Chūgoku proportional representation block. From 2007 to 2013 she was one of the two representatives of Shimane Prefecture in the Sangiin , the national upper house.

Kamei, the daughter of Hisaoki Kamei ( New People's Party ) and thus a descendant of the former Count Kamei family , graduated from the law faculty of Gakushūin Daigaku and Carleton University . After returning to Japan, she worked as an English translator, and later as her father's secretary of parliament. In the Sangiin election in 2007 , she ran for her father's party with DPJ - SDP support in Shimane (one mandate per election), was able to surpass the LDP office holder Shuntarō Kageyama by around 30,000 votes and moved into Sangiin. There she was a member of the accounting and agriculture committees; In the New People's Party, she was General Secretary of the Sangiin Group and from 2010 to 2012 chairwoman of the Political Research Council .

In 2012 she left the New People's Party and took part in the founding of Midori no Kaze , where she was initially one of the four co-chairs, and from January 2013 General Secretary. In the 2013 Sangiin election , she lost her seat to the Liberal Democrat Saburō Shimada .

In May 2016, Kamei joined the Minshintō , which she set for the 48th general election to Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament, as a candidate in the Shimane constituency 1 . Before the actual election in October 2017 , the Minshinto split. Kamei was now nominated by the Constitutional Democratic Party with a Social Democratic election recommendation and was subject to LDP incumbent Hiroyuki Hosoda , but won one of the two KDP seats in the proportional representation in Chūgoku as the best loser.

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  1. ↑ 亀 井 亜 紀子氏 、 民 進入 り 島 根 で の 衆院 選 擁 立 調整 . In: Sankei News . May 11, 2016. Retrieved February 28, 2017 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Minshintō: Candidates for the next Shūgiin election , Kamei Akiko ( Memento from February 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , election results Shūgiin 2017, Shimane (majority constituencies) ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) & Chūgoku (proportional representation) ( Memento from December 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kamei, Akiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 亀 井 亜 紀 子
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo prefecture