Haruko Arimura
Haruko Arimura ( Japanese 有 村 治 子 , Arimura Haruko ; born September 21, 1970 in Ishikawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician, senator for the nationwide proportional representation on the list of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and was consumer protection minister in the second from 2014 to 2015 and third cabinet Abe.
Arimura grew up in Shiga , where her brother Kunitoshi, like father Kunihiro, has been a member of the prefecture parliament since 2011 - but her family roots go back to Satsuma / Kagoshima , her family included Viscount Kaieda (originally Shunsai Arimura) and Jizaemon Arimura (on the Sakuradamon - Incident involved). She studied at the kyōyō gakubu (Faculty of Liberal Arts ) of the ICU . She then attended the School for International Training (SIT) in Vermont . After returning to Japan, she worked for McDonald’s Japan for some time . From 1999 she earned a PhD from Aoyama Gakuin University . During this time she began her political career.
In the 2001 Senate election , the first in which the newly introduced preferential votes were used in proportional representation, Arimura ran for proportional representation for the LDP. She was supported, among other things, by the conservative Shinseiren ( Shintō seiji renmei , about "Bund für Shintō-Politics", English Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership , there she is now Vice Secretary-General of the National Conference of Representatives) and received around 114,000 votes nationwide, making it 19th place the LDP list, which with 20 LDP seats was enough for one choice. She has since been re-elected three times in a row: in 2007 with around 201,000 votes in 14th place among 14 proportional representation senators for the LDP as a whole, in 2013 with around 191,000 votes in 12th place on the LDP list, and in 2019 with 206,221 votes in 10th place.
From 2005 to 2006 Arimura was parliamentary secretary in MEXT , from 2008 to 2009 she chaired the Senate Committee on the Environment. When the LDP was in opposition, she was part of the shadow cabinet as State Secretary. In September 2014, Prime Minister Shinzō appointed Abe Minister for Consumer Protection, Deregulation, Decline in Births and Gender Equality in a cabinet reshuffle . Arimura is, like Prime Minister Abe and other cabinet and LDP party members, a member of the Nippon Kaigi , which is considered revisionist .
Web links
- Website (japanese)
- Japanese Senate , members: Arimura Haruko (Japanese, English )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of Kunitoshi Arimura (Japanese)
- ^ Sōmushō : Results of the 19th ordinary Senate elections, proportional representation, LDP
- ↑ http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2994558
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arimura, Haruko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 有 村 治 子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ishikawa-ken |