Midori Matsushima

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Midori Matsushima

Midori Matsushima ( Japanese 松 島 み ど り , Matsushima Midori ; born July 15, 1956 in Toyonaka , Osaka Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( Machimura faction ) and member of the Shūgiin for the 14th constituency of Tokyo Prefecture . From September 2014 until her resignation in October 2014, she was Minister of Justice in Abe's second cabinet .

Matsushima studied at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo and then worked for 15 years as a journalist for the Asahi Shimbun , mainly in the editorial offices for business and politics. In 1995 she left the newspaper to turn to politics.

In the Shūgiin election in 1996 , the first after the introduction of the single-mandate constituencies and the trench election system, she ran for the LDP in the new constituency of Tokyo 14, but was defeated by Taichirō Nishikawa ( NFP ), which later belonged to the Conservative Party , which was in coalition with the LDP ruled. In the 2000 election she ran only in the Tokyo proportional representation block, where the LDP's list was headed by candidates who had not run in a constituency at the same time, and was safely elected in first place. In the Shūgiin election in 2003 , the LDP nominated Matsushima as a candidate in the constituency of Tokyo 14, despite a coalition with the (now: "new") Conservative Party, and it narrowly defeated the Democrat Kazuo Inoue , the third-placed Nishikawa and a communist by. In 2005 she defended the seat with an absolute majority.

In 2006 Matsushima became parliamentary state secretary ( daijinseimukan ) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the first cabinet of Shinzō Abe (Machimura faction) , then from 2007 to 2008 (Abe cabinet reshuffle and Fukuda cabinet) she was "Vice Minister" ( fukudaijin ) in the Ministry of Land and Transport . In the Shūgiin election in 2009 , she lost her constituency to the Democrat Taketsuka Kimura and also missed the election in the Tokyo block, where she shared first place on the list with all the double candidates and with five proportional representation for the LDP with a sekihairitsu of 84.6% only was the sixth-best constituency loser.

In the democratic landslide defeat in the Shūgiin election in 2012 , she stood up against a fragmented field of candidates - Kimura had joined the Future Party, the Nippon Ishin no Kai nominated a candidate and the Democrats appointed Tadashi Inuzuka (until 2010 a member of the Sangiin for Nagasaki Prefecture ) in the Constituency 14 - despite only a slight increase in the share of votes and a decrease in the absolute number of votes. Until 2013 she was chairman of the Shūgiin special committee for youth issues (seishōnen mondai ni kan suru tokubetsu iinkai) . In September 2013 she was appointed “Vice Minister” for the second Abe cabinet in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Industry . During the cabinet reshuffle in September 2014, Abe appointed her Minister of Justice.

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  1. ↑ Shūgiin , MP: 松 島 み ど り ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.shugiin.go.jp
  2. ↑ spiegel.de October 20, 2014: Setbacks for Prime Minister: Two Japanese ministers resign
  3. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Results of the general Shūgiin election 2009, single- seat constituencies, Tokyo Prefecture
  4. ^ Yomiuri Shimbun : Results of the general Shūgiin election 2009, proportional representation, Block Tokyo
  5. ^ Yomiuri Shimbun : Results of the 2012 Shūgiin general election, single- seat constituencies, Tokyo Prefecture
personal data
SURNAME Matsushima, Midori
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 松 島 み ど り (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Toyonaka , Osaka Prefecture