Keiko Chiba

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Keiko Chiba, 2010

Keiko Chiba ( Japanese 千葉 景 子 , Chiba Keiko ; born May 11, 1948 in Yokohama , Kanagawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( Socialist Party of Japan → Social Democratic Party → Democratic Party ). For four terms from 1986 to 2010, she represented Kanagawa in the Sangiin , the upper house of the national parliament , and from 2009 to 2010 she was Minister of Justice in the Hatoyama and Kan cabinets . In the Democratic Party she belonged toYokomichi group of former socialists.

Chiba graduated from Chūō University in 1971 , and from 1982 she was registered as a lawyer in Yokohama. In the 1986 Sangiin election she was elected to parliament for the first time as the candidate of the Socialist Party of Japan for Kanagawa with the second highest percentage of votes. There she was re-elected three times, most recently in 2004 .

She has been a member of the Democratic Party since 1997. There she was, among other things, chairman of the Executive Council under Ichirō Ozawa , deputy party chairman ( fuku-daihyō ) under Yukio Hatoyama and belonged to several shadow cabinets.

In 2009, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama Chiba appointed Justice Minister in his cabinet, Hatoyama's successor Naoto Kan left her in this position. In the 2010 Sangiin election , Chiba in Kanagawa received only the fourth-highest share of the vote and lost her seat as a member of parliament, but retained her ministerial office until the cabinet reshuffle following the election of the party chairman in September 2010.

She is an opponent of the death penalty , the execution of which by hanging in Japan must be approved by the Justice Minister, and when she took office she called for a new debate on its abolition. Your predecessors as ministers had ordered a record number of executions in recent years.

Nonetheless, she ordered the executions of the two convicted murderers, Hidenori Ogata, 33, and Kazuo Shinozawa, 59, and was the first Japanese Justice Minister to take part in their execution on July 28, 2010, as she saw it as responsible for her duty. In addition, she announced that the hitherto secret execution sites would be opened to the media in order to enable a public discussion on the death penalty.

Web links

Commons : Keiko Chiba  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 参議院> 第 14 回 参議院 議員 選 挙> 神奈川 選 挙 区 . (No longer available online.) In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures), July 31, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 18, 2009 (Japanese).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.senkyo.janjan.jp  
  2. ↑ Chiba urges death penalty debate. In: The Japan Times . September 18, 2009, accessed September 17, 2009 .
  3. ^ Controversial death penalty - two executions in Japan , NZZ Online July 30, 2010
  4. ^ Minoru Matsutani: Execution chamber opened to reporters. Chiba hopes gallows glimpse spurs debate. In: The Japan Times . August 28, 2010, accessed September 28, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Chiba, Keiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 千 葉景子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Yokohama , Kanagawa Prefecture