Mieko Yoshimura

Mieko Yoshimura ( Japanese 吉 村 美 栄 子 , Yoshimura Mieko ; * 1951 in Ōe , Nishimurayama County , Yamagata Prefecture ) is a non-party Japanese politician and has been the governor of Yamagata Prefecture since February 2009.

Career

Yoshimura graduated from Ochanomizu Women's University in 1974 and then worked for Recruit until 1977 . In 1981 she qualified as a gyōsei shoshi , a legal expert on administrative matters who prepares documents and applications for the administration. From 1998 she worked for the "General Training Center of the City of Yamagata " ( Yamagata-shi sōgō gakushū center ), two years later she became self-employed as a gyōsei shōshi . After that she belonged, among other things, to the school committee ( kyōiku-iinkai ) and the "monitoring committee for public tenders" ( nyūsatsu-kanshi-iinkai ).

Yoshimura ran with the support of the Democratic Party , the Social Democratic Party , the Communist Party of Japan and individual members of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for the gubernatorial election in Yamagata on January 25, 2009. With about 10,000 votes, she was able to beat incumbent Hiroshi Saitō , who of the national governing parties LDP and Kōmeitō had been supported and had focused in his first term on reforming the prefectural finances. Yoshimura's demands during the election campaign included, among other things, a reduction in gubernatorial salaries and the abolition of one of the two deputy posts, a "plan for new jobs" through higher subsidies to reduce the emigration of young people, and preservation of the social infrastructure.

Yoshimura's term of office began on February 14, 2009. Since then, she has been confirmed in office twice in a row, in 2013 and 2017 , due to a lack of opposing candidates without a vote.

Individual evidence

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Web links

• Governor's Site at Yamagata Prefecture (Japanese)