Kyōko Nakayama

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Kyōko Nakayama in her time with the LDP

Kyōko Nakayama ( Japanese 中山 恭子 , Nakayama Kyōko ; born January 26, 1940 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( LDP → Taiyō → Kokoro → Kibō ). From 2007 to 2019 she was a member of the Sangiin , the upper house of the national parliament , for the national proportional representation, and in 2008 she was a minister in the Fukuda cabinet.

Life

Nakayama studied French language and literature at the University of Tokyo , where she graduated ( BA ) in 1963 . In 1964 she became a civil servant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , two years later she moved to the Ministry of Finance . From 1975 to 1978 she worked at the International Monetary Fund . In 1993 she left the Ministry of Finance and was Vice President of the Japan Foundation for six years , which works on behalf of the government to promote international cultural exchange. In 1999 she was appointed ambassador to Uzbekistan .

In 2002, Nakayama returned to Japan and initially worked in the Cabinet Secretariat for two years as an advisor on kidnapping, and in September 2006 she became the Prime Minister's special advisor on kidnapping. In the Sangiin election in 2007 , she successfully applied for a mandate for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) through the proportional representation bloc. In the LDP, she joined the Machimura faction . In August 2008, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda appointed Nakayama to succeed Yōko Kamikawa as Minister of State for Combating the Decline of Births and for Gender Equality ; In addition, she was given responsibility in the Cabinet for the kidnapping issue, which had previously been with the Chief Cabinet Secretary. In September 2008 she replaced Fukuda's successor Tarō Asō by Yūko Obuchi , but reappointed her as a special advisor.

In June 2010, Nakayama resigned from the LDP and, together with her husband, joined the Tachiagare Nippon by Takeo Hiranuma , which rose in 2012 in the Taiyō no Tō by Shintarō Ishihara , then the Nippon Ishin no Kai . For this she ran again in the 2013 Sangiin election in the proportional representation segment, received 306,341 votes and thus achieved second place on the list, which meant safe re-election with six proportional representation mandates. In the summer of 2014, she joined the Jisedai no Tō (later renamed) of Shintarō Ishihara and Takeo Hiranuma in the split of the Ishin no Kai .

Nakayama's husband, Nariaki Nakayama , is a Kibō MP in the Shūgiin and was Minister for Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology in the 2nd and 3rd Koizumi Cabinet and Minister in the Asō Cabinet for a few days .

In September Nakayama stepped out of the Nippon no Kokoro and joined the Kibō no Tō of Yuriko Koike . In April 2019, Nakayama announced that he wanted to withdraw from active politics and did not run for the 2019 Sangiin election .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , Sangiin election results 2013: proportional representation Nippon Ishin no Kai ( Memento of September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 31, 2013)
  2. ↑ 中山 恭子 氏 、 日本 の こ こ ろ 離 党 「希望 の 党」 加入 の 意向 . In: Nihon Keizai Shimbun . September 25, 2017. Retrieved September 30, 2017 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 中山 恭子 参 院 議員 政界 引退 へ . In: Mainichi Shimbun . April 9, 2019. Retrieved August 20, 2019 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Nakayama, Kyōko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 中山 恭子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo prefecture