Fusae Ōta

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Governor Ōta at Tenjin-matsuri 2006.

Fusae Ōta ( Japanese 太 田 房 江 , Ōta Fusae , occasionally romanized by herself as Ohta ; actually married 齊藤 房 江 , Saitō Fusae ; born June 2, 1951 in Kure , Hiroshima prefecture ) is a Japanese politician, member of the Japanese upper house for the prefecture Osaka and former governor of Osaka. She was the nation's first woman to serve as governor.

Ōta studied economics at the University of Tokyo . After graduating in 1976, she became a civil servant at MITI . In 1997, she left the ministry and became the deputy governor of Okayama . After two years she returned to MITI as Secretary of the Minister ( 大臣 官 房 , daijin kambō ).

After the governor of Osaka, Knock Yokoyama , had to resign in 1999 for sexual harassment, Ōta announced their candidacy, which was supported by the national LDP , DPJ , Kōmeitō and the Liberal Party . She won the elections on February 6, 2000 with around 1.4 million votes (45.98%) against Makoto Ajisaka ( CPY-supported , 33.99%), Tatsuo Hiraoka (with the support of the LDP Osaka, 19.14%) and Seizō Hideyoshi Hashiba (0.89%), with voter turnout reaching a historic low of 44.5%. In 2004 she was re-elected with additional support from the SDP and 56.18% of the vote.

After a financial scandal involving the meat company Hannan Corp. and criticism by the LDP of joint campaign appearances with opposition politicians of the DPJ in the mayoral election in Osaka 2007ta lost the support of parties and business associations in 2007. In December she announced that she would not run again in 2008.

In the upper house election in 2013 , idta ran for the LDP in the nationwide proportional representation. She received 77,173 preferential votes and landed on the 18th LDP list place, the last that was enough for an election. For the 2019 upper house election , she moved to the Osaka prefectural constituency after LDP MP Takuji Yanagimoto announced his withdrawal for the next election in 2018. With 16% of the vote behind three candidates from Nippon Ishin no Kai and Kōmeitō , but around five percentage points ahead of the candidates of the center-left opposition, she won the fourth of Osaka's four seats.

From 2015 to 2016 Ōta was State Secretary ( daijin seimukan ) in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor for the reorganized Abe third cabinet .

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  1. ↑ Eric Johnston: Osaka governor, hit by scandal, lack of backers, won't seek a third term. In: The Japan Times. December 4, 2007, accessed March 13, 2008 .
  2. ↑ Asahi Shimbun , Sangiin 2013 election results: proportional representation , Liberal Democratic Party (accessed August 9, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Ōta, Fusae
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 太 田 房 江 (Japanese); Ohta Fusae; 齊藤 房 江 (Japanese); Saitō Fusae (name in the population register)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Kure , Hiroshima Prefecture , Japan