Yūko Obuchi

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Yūko Obuchi

Yūko Obuchi ( Japanese 小 渕 優 子 , Obuchi Yūko ; born December 11, 1973 in Bunkyō , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house, for the 5th constituency of Gunma .

From September 2014 until her resignation in October 2014, she was Minister of Economic Affairs in Abe's second cabinet . In the LDP she belongs to the Nukaga faction .

Life

Obuchi is the third child of LDP politician Keizō Obuchi (1937-2000); he was Prime Minister of Japan from 1998 to 2000. After studying economics at Seijō University , which she graduated in 1996, she first worked for the television station Tōkyō Hōsō (TBS). From 1999 she worked in her father's office while he was Prime Minister.

After the death of her father, she ran successfully for his seat in the Shūgiin in the election on June 25, 2000 in the 5th constituency of Gunma. There she chaired the Committee on Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Special Committee for Okinawa and the Northern Territories. From 2006 to 2007 she was State Secretary ( seimukan ) in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology .

From September 2008 to September 2009, Obuchi was Prime Minister Tarō Asō's Minister of State for Combating the Decline of Births and Gender Equality in his cabinet . At the age of 34, she was the youngest female state minister in post-war history when she took office.

From December 2012 to September 2013 Obuchi was Secretary of State ( fuku-daijin ) in the Ministry of Finance for the second cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe . She then became the chairman of the Shūgiin Culture and Science Committee. In September 2014, during a cabinet reshuffle, Abe appointed her to succeed Toshimitsu Motegi (Nukaga faction) as Minister in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Industry; Motegi they also took over the responsibility for (in September 2011, six months after the start of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima founded) Genshiryoku Songai Baisho, Hairo tō shien Kiko ( 原子力損害賠償·廃炉等支援機構 , Eng. Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation ), which supports nuclear power plant operators with compensation for victims of nuclear disasters and has also been responsible for the dismantling of nuclear power plants since 2014 .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ spiegel.de October 20, 2014: Setbacks for Prime Minister: Two Japanese ministers resign
  2. ↑ TEPCO press release August 21, 2014: Financial Support from the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (17.5 billion yen)
personal data
SURNAME Obuchi, Yūko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 小 渕 優 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Bunkyō , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan