Masako Mori (politician)

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Masako Mori (2015)

Masako Mori ( Japanese 森 ま さ こ , Mori Masako , actually Miyoshi Masako ( 三好 雅子 ); born August 22, 1964 in Iwaki , Fukushima Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( Hosoda faction ), member of the Sangiin for Fukushima and incumbent Minister of Justice .

Life

Mori studied at Tōhoku University Law School and passed the bar exam in 1992. In 1995 she was registered with the Tokyo Bar Association. In 1999 she went to New York University for postgraduate studies . After her return, she worked from 2005 for the authority for the financial sector , which she left again in 2006 to switch to politics: In the gubernatorial election in Fukushima in 2006 , Mori ran with the support of LDP and Kōmeitō to succeed Eisaku Satō , who had resigned under allegations of corruption. but was defeated by a good 100,000 votes to the DPJ -sided Yūhei Satō .

In the 2007 Sangiin election in Fukushima (at that time still a two-mandate constituency), LDP MP Ōta Toyoaki withdrew after three terms, and Mori ran for the LDP. With a clear deficit of over 130,000 votes to the Democrat Emi Kaneko, but a safe lead over the two candidates of the left parties, she moved into the Sangiin. In 2012 she became chair of the Committee on Administrative Oversight (gyōsei kanshi). In the LDP she was chairman of the legal committee in 2009 and vice-general secretary in 2010.

In December 2012, Prime Minister Shinzō appointed Abe Mori as Minister of State for Combating the Falling Birth Rate and for Gender Equality and Consumer Protection in his second cabinet . In the 2013 Sangiin election in Fukushima (henceforth a single-mandate constituency) she won 56.6% of the votes against the previous co-owner Emi Kaneko (DPJ), who received 28.2% of the vote, and four other candidates for re-election . In the cabinet reshuffle in September 2014, Abe replaced her with Haruko Arimura . From 2016 to 2017 she was Chair of the Sangiin Environmental Committee. In the 2019 Sangiin election , Mori was re-elected for another six years with an absolute majority.

On October 31, 2019, Prime Minister Abe appointed her to succeed the resigned Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai in the fourth Abe cabinet, which was reorganized for the second time .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2013 参 院 選> 開票 速 報> 選 挙 区 ： 福島 . In: Asahi Shimbun . July 2013, accessed August 5, 2019 (Japanese).
  2. ^ Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai resigns over wife's alleged election law breach. In: The Japan Times . October 31, 2019, accessed October 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mori, Masako
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 森 ま さ こ (Japanese); 三好 雅子 (Japanese, real name); Miyoshi Masako (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Iwaki , Fukushima Prefecture