Eriko Yamatani
Eriko Yamatani ( Japanese 山谷 え り 子 Yamatani Eriko ; born September 19, 1950 in Musashino , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and a member of the Sangiin , the upper house of the national parliament, through the nationwide proportional representation. From 2014 to 2015 she was Chair of the National Public Security Commission and Minister of Disaster Control in Abe's second cabinet . Within the LDP it belongs to the Hosoda faction .
Yamatani studied psychology at Seishin Women's University (University of the Sacred Heart). After graduating in 1973, like her father, she became a journalist for the Sankei Shimbun and its television station. In the Sangiin election in 1989 , she was a candidate on the Democratic Socialist Party list , but was not elected.
In the Shūgiin election in 2000 , Yamatani was elected for the Democratic Party in the Tōkai proportional representation block, where she ran alone in front of the double candidates at number 1 on the democratic list. Together with Hiroshi Kumagai , she left the Democrats in 2002 and helped found the New Conservative Party , which joined the LDP in 2003. In the 2003 Shūgiin election , she ran for the New Conservative Party in the constituency of Tokyo 4 , but was clearly defeated by the candidates of the two major parties.
In the 2004 Sangiin election , Yamatani was elected via proportional representation as the LDP candidate with 242,043 votes (LDP list position 6). In November 2005, Yamatani became Secretary of State in the cabinet office . Prime Minister Shinzō Abe appointed her special advisor for educational reform when she took office in 2006, and his successor Yasuo Fukuda left her in this position, which she held until Fukuda's resignation in August 2008. From 2009 to 2010 she chaired the environmental committee at Sangiin. In the Sangiin election in 2010 , she achieved third place on the LDP proportional representation list with over 250,000 votes and was certainly re-elected. Under Sadakazu Tanigaki she was part of the LDP's shadow cabinet for a time.
After the Liberal Democrats came to power again, Yamatani took over the chairmanship of the Sangiin special committee for development aid in 2012, and in 2013 she became the PARC chairman of the LDP faction in the Sangiin. In September 2014, during a cabinet reshuffle, she appointed Shinzō Abe as chairman of the public security commission and minister at the cabinet office for civil protection and assigned her further tasks: the kidnappings by North Korea and the civil protection measures under the law to "strengthen the toughness of the country" from her predecessor Keiji Furuya as well maritime and territorial issues (previously with Ichita Yamamoto ). Yamatani, like Prime Minister Abe and other cabinet and LDP party members, is close to Nippon Kaigi , who is considered revisionist .
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Brief résumé on the website of the Japanese Cabinet (Japanese, English )
Individual evidence
- ^ Asahi Shimbun , 2004 election results: Proportional constituency
- ↑ http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2994558
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yamatani, Eriko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 山谷 え り 子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Musashino , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan |