Ayaka Shiomura

Ayaka Shiomura ( Japanese 塩 村 文 夏 , Shiomura Ayaka ; born July 6, 1978 in Fukuyama , Hiroshima Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and has been a member of the Council House for Tokyo Prefecture since 2019 , the upper house of the National Parliament . Independent of party, before that for the dissolved Minna no Tō , she represented the Setagaya district in the Tokyo Prefectural Parliament from 2013 to 2017 . Today she belongs to the Constitutional Democratic Party (KDP).

Shiomura graduated from private Shūjitsu High School in Okayama City in 1997 . She then attended Kyōritsu Women's Short University (Kyōritsu joshi tanki daigaku) , which she graduated in 1999. She was also a photo model for magazines and advertising. After studying abroad at the Australian School of Hotel Management, various media jobs and appearances on television, she has been writing and organizing television programs since the late 2000s. She is also committed to animal welfare.

In 2012 Shiomura visited the Ishin seiji-juku that Tōru Hashimoto and his Ōsaka Ishin no Kai founded for the planned foray into national politics, but did not become a candidate for the Nippon Ishin no Kai in the lower house election in December 2012 . In 2013, she joined the Minna no Tō instead and ran for it in the eight-mandate Setagaya constituency in the 2013 Tokyo prefecture parliament election . With 23,621 votes, she achieved the sixth highest share of votes behind five candidates from LDP and Kōmeitō . After the subsequent split of the Minna no Tō in the prefectural parliament into two factions and the split of the party at the end of 2013, she stayed with the Minna no Tō. In parliament she was, among other things, a member of the Social Committee (kōsei iinkai) , in the (four members strong) Minna no Tō Tōkyō faction she led the vice -chair (here fuku-kanjichō ).

During a speech in the prefectural parliament in June 2014, Shiomura was interrupted by sexist heckling (apparently from members of the LDP faction) that sparked a nationwide public debate on sexism in the workplace and women in Japanese politics and generated national and international media coverage. Akihiro Suzuki MP (LDP, Ōta district ) later confessed to one of the heckling and publicly apologized. Other MPs did not confess; no further investigation took place until the end of the session a week later. The vast majority of MPs only voted for a resolution designed to prevent similar cases from occurring again. Two requests that demanded clarification or even the resignation of the hecklers failed.

In the prefectural parliamentary elections in 2017 , Shiomura no longer stood for a change to national politics: In the 2017 election to the House of Representatives , the lower house of the national parliament , in constituency 3 of her home prefecture Hiroshima, she ran as an independent candidate of the center-left opposition ( DFP , CPJ , SDP ), but was defeated by LDP incumbent Katsuyuki Kawai . In the 2019 election to the council house, Shiomura ran in Tokyo Prefecture (six seats) as one of two KDP candidates alongside Issei Yamagishi. She achieved the fourth highest share of the vote with 12.0% of the vote, while Yamagishi narrowly missed the sixth seat with 8.6%.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• KDP: Shiomura Ayaka (Japanese)
• Council House: Members Shiomura Ayaka (Japanese, English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Minna no Tō, seine-kyoku ("youth department"), Action11 ( memento of the original from July 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : 東京 都 都 議会 議員 塩 村 あ や か  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
2. ↑ Tōkyō Shimbun , Tokyo Prefecture Parliament Election 2013: Result Setagaya-ku (Japanese)
3. ^ Will Ripley, Edmund S. Henry: Outrage follows sexist outburst at Tokyo assembly meeting. In: CNN . June 23, 2014, accessed June 26, 2014 . 
4. ^ Justin McCurry: Tokyo assemblywoman subjected to sexist abuse from other members. In: The Guardian . June 20, 2014, accessed June 26, 2014 . 
5. ^ Yoko Sudo: Tokyo Assemblyman Apologizes for Heckling Female Councilor. In: The Wall Street Journal , Japan Real Time. June 23, 2014, accessed June 26, 2014 . 
6. ↑ 都 議会 閉会 、 ヤ ジ 追加 調査 な し . (No longer available online.) In: Yomiuri Online. June 26, 2014, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 26, 2014 (Japanese).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ 都 議会: 自浄 能力 ど こ に… 「鈴木 議員 以外 の ヤ ジ 不 問」 で 幕 . (No longer available online.) In: Mainichi Shimbun . June 25, 2014, archived from the original ; Retrieved June 26, 2014 (Japanese).