Kanako Otsuji
Kanako Otsuji ( Japanese 尾 辻 か な 子 , Otsuji Kanako ; born December 16, 1974 in Nara Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and LGBT activist. In 2013 she was a member of the Sangiin , the upper house of the national parliament, for several weeks . Since 2017 she has represented the Kinki proportional representation block in the House of Representatives , the national lower house, for the Constitutional Democratic Party (KDP) .
Otsuji was born in Nara, but comes from Hannan in Osaka Prefecture . She spent her school days in Kobe , after which she first began studying forest science at the University of Kōchi , which she finished without a degree. After a two-year language study stay at Seoul University , she began studying at the Department of Commerce at Dōshisha University , which she graduated in 2001.
Otsuji was elected to the Osaka Prefectural Parliament in April 2003 as an independent from the Sakai District of the city of the same name . In August 2005 she published her autobiography Coming Out: Jibun Rashisa o Mitsukeru Tabi ( カ ミ ン グ ア ウ ト ～ 自 分 ら し さ を 見 つ け る 旅 , Kamingu auto - Jibun rashisa o mitsukeru tabi , dt. "In search of my own self" ) and had her public coming-out the day before the Tokyo Pride Parade , formerly known as the Tokyo Lesbian & Gay Parade , in which she participated. Otsuji is the first publicly homosexual politician in Japan. In the prefecture parliament she campaigned for the rights of homosexuals.
In the April 2007 elections, she decided not to run again for the prefectural parliament and instead tried to be elected to the Japanese upper house in the Sangiin election in July . Otsuji ran for this on the list of the Democratic Party of Japan . However, she did not succeed in gaining a seat, as she was only able to achieve 29th place on the proportional representation list with a good 38,000 votes - the Democratic Party was entitled to 20 list seats . In May 2013, she moved into the Sangiin as a replacement for Kunihiko Muroi for the remaining term of office until the 2013 Sangiin election in July 2013. In the 2013 election, she did not run for re-election.
In June 2005, Otsuji caused a national stir when she married her longtime partner, Maki Kimura. However, since there are no legal regulations for same-sex partnerships in Japan, this ceremony is not recognized as legal by the authorities.
Otsuji was a member of Niji to Midori, a former Japanese green party that has since become part of Midori no Mirai ("Green Future").
In the Shūgiin election in 2012 , Otsuji ran in the 5th constituency of Osaka to succeed the Democrat Tetsuo Inami, but was defeated by Tōru Kunishige ( Kōmeitō with LDP and Ishin support) and ended up with around 46,000 votes - less than 23% - still behind Communist candidate Kazumasa Seto in third place. With her constituency result she reached 23rd place on the proportional representation list of the Democratic Party in the Kinki block and thus also missed a proportional representation mandate - the Democratic Party won only 12% of the proportional representation in Kinki and thus only three of the 29 proportional representation seats. In 2016, the Democratic Party was absorbed into the Democratic Progressive Party (in English-speaking countries: Democratic Party). There she was in the Osaka Prefectural Association head of [constituency] Branch 2 (implies: candidate for the next House of Representatives election) - the constituency includes southeastern parts of the city of Osaka .
However, in positioning for the 2017 election , the Democratic Progressive Party split, and Otsuji joined Yukio Edano's Constitutional Democratic Party. She was defeated in the Osaka constituency 2 with 23.1% clearly LDP incumbent Akira Satō (43.9%) and Ishin candidate Tamotsu Shiiki (33.1%), but with this constituency result reached the list number 1 among nine double candidates fourth place on the KDP list in the proportional representation in Kinki, which meant the successful election with five KDP proportional representation.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The correct spelling, which is often not shown in standard fonts , uses the variant ⻌ of Shinnyō , not 辶 , see Sangiin: Correct spelling of the names of representatives ( 議員 氏 名 の 正確 な 表 記 )
- ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUST26591220070730
- ^ Yomiuri Shimbun : Sangiin proportional representation result for the Democratic Party 2007
- ↑ 尾 辻 氏 が 繰 り 上 げ 当選 ＝ 参 院 . In: Jiji Tsūshin . May 23, 2013. Retrieved May 23, 2013 (Japanese).
- ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Shūgiin election results 2012, constituency Osaka 5
- ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun: Shūgiin election results 2012, Block Kinki, Democratic Party ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2015 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.
- ↑ Minshintō, April 25, 2017: 【ＬＧＢＴ 勉強 会】 「こ の 勉強 会 を 契機 に に 運動 を 展開 し て い く」 西村 議員
- ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , election results Shūgiin 2017, Osaka / constituency 2 ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2017 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. and proportional representation constituency Kinki / KDP ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Otsuji, Kanako |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 尾 辻 か な 子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician and LGBT activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nara Prefecture , Japan |