Harumi Takahashi

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Harumi Takahashi ( Japanese 高橋 は る み , Takahashi Harumi ; born January 6, 1954 in Toyama ) is a Japanese politician and since 2019 a member for Hokkaidō in the Senate , the upper house of the Japanese National Day , where she belongs to the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Before that, she was governor of Hokkaidō for four terms from 2003 to 2019 .

Takahashi is the daughter of Nitta Shichirō , President of Nihonkai Gas and founder of INTEC . She graduated from Hitotsubashi University's Faculty of Economics in 1976 . Then she became an officer at MITI . From 1985 she worked at the Atlantic Institute in Paris. In 2000 she returned to Japan for the MITI's SME authority, from January 2001 she headed the Hokkaidō branch of MITI (from January 6th METI ) in Sapporo , and a year later she became head of the Ministry's Research Institute of Economy , Trade and Industry , RIETI).

Takahashi's candidacy for the gubernatorial election in Hokkaidō on April 13, 2003 was supported by the ruling parties LDP, Kōmeitō and New Conservative Party . From a broad field of nine candidates, she was elected with 798,317 votes (29.29%) and around 60,000 votes ahead of Yoshio Hachiro , who enjoyed the support of the three largest opposition parties. She was re-elected with clear majorities in 2007 and 2011 . In the run-up to the G8 summit in Tōyako in 2008 , Takahashi, as governor of the host prefecture , expressed the hope that the visit of the Russian president could help to resolve the Kuril conflict . The gubernatorial election in 2015 won Takahashi with 56.6% of votes comparatively tight against the opposition based journalist Noriyuki Satō.

In December 2018, she announced that she would no longer run for a fifth term in the upcoming gubernatorial election in April 2019 , but instead tried to switch to national politics in the Senate election in July 2019 . She joined the LDP on December 18, 2018.

In the Senate election she received by far the highest percentage of votes with 34.4% and was certainly elected.

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  1. ↑ Hokkaidō Shimbun, March 8, 2007: Governor Announces Summit Bid "in the Toyako Region"
  2. ↑ 気 持 ち 揺 れ た が… 高橋 は る み 知事 、 参 院 選出 馬 へ . In: Yomiuri Shimbun . December 5, 2018. Retrieved March 23, 2019 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 高橋 は る み 知事 、 １８ 日 付 で 自民党 入党 . In: Hokkaidō Shimbun . December 18, 2018, accessed March 23, 2019 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Takahashi, Harumi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 高橋 は る み (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Toyama , Toyama Prefecture , Japan