Seiko Hashimoto

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Seiko Hashimoto
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Seiko Hashimoto (2018)
Seiko Hashimoto (2018)

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bronze 1992 Albertville 1500 m

Seiko Hashimoto ( Japanese 橋本 聖 子 , Hashimoto Seiko ; born Ishizaki ( 石 崎 聖 子 ); born October 5, 1964 in Hayakita (today: Abira ), Hokkaidō Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( LDP , Hosoda faction ) and former speed skater and track cyclist . With a total of seven participations in the Olympic Games , four times in winter and three times in summer , she is one of the record holders among all female Olympic athletes in terms of the number of participations. Since 2019 she has been a minister in the fourth Abe cabinet, which was reorganized for the second time .

Athletic career

Hashimoto started ice skating at the age of three. At the speed skating sprint world championship in 1989 she won bronze, at the all- around world championships in 1990 silver and 1992 bronze.

In 1984 in Sarajevo , Hashimoto first took part in the Olympic Games. She won her first and only Olympic medal at her third Winter Games in 1992 in Albertville in speed skating over 1500 meters . In 1994 she appeared at the Games in Lillehammer a fourth time.

In the summer months, Hashimoto turned regularly to track cycling. She qualified for three Olympic Games, but could not achieve top placements in Seoul in 1988 , Barcelona in 1992 or in their last games in Atlanta in 1996 .

Political career

Hashimoto is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). For the LDP she was elected to the upper house of the Japanese parliament for the first time in 1995 via the nationwide proportional representation and has since been re-elected four times. In 2001 she reached 6th place on the LDP list with 265,545 of the newly introduced preferred votes, 11th in 2007 with 221,361 votes, 5th in 2013 with 279,952 votes, and 8th in 2019 with 225,617 votes.

In 1996 she was preparing for the Olympic Games in addition to her parliamentary duties.

From 2001 to 2002, Hashimoto chaired the Sangiin Culture and Science Committee. From 2003 to 2004 she was deputy general secretary of the LDP, from 2003 she temporarily also led the LDP prefecture association Hokkaidō, since 2011 she has been chairwoman of the LDP Sapporo. In 2005 she became chairwoman of the LDP's women's division. In the 2007 election campaign for the election of LDP chairman , which decided on the prime minister during the decades of LDP government, she led the support group of Yasuo Fukuda (Machimura faction) in order to meet the required quorum of 20 nominees for a candidacy. During the Aso cabinet , she was State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2009 . In 2010 and 2011 she was a member of Sadakazu Tanigaki's LDP shadow cabinet as shadow minister for measures against the decline in the birth rate, sport and gender equality. In July 2016 she was appointed parliamentary group leader of the LDP in the upper house; she is the first woman to hold this post. After the 2019 election, she was replaced at the head of the LDP upper house parliamentary group by Masakazu Sekiguchi . In the reshuffle in September 2019 it became the Minister of State for Gender Equality with the additional responsibilities include " Paralympic Olympic & Games Tokyo " ( Tōkyō orimpikku Kyogi taikai · Tōkyō pararimpikku Kyogi taikai ) and "activation of women" ( josei katsuyaku ; see abenomics or "Womenomics “) Appointed.

Sports career

Hashimoto has been President of the Japan Ice Skating Association since 2006 . It was an active part of Tokyo's application for the 2016 Summer Games , which were ultimately awarded to Rio de Janeiro .

Others

Hashimoto was born shortly before the Summer Olympics in 1964 , which is why her father named her after the Japanese word for the Olympic flame , seika (Japanese 聖火 ).

Web links

Commons : Seiko Hashimoto  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c mofa.go.jp , website of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved July 9, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c d sports-reference.com , accessed on July 9, 2012.
  3. ^ Sōmushō : Result of proportional representation in the 19th regular Sangiin election
  4. ↑ Sōmushō: Results of the 21st regular Sangiin election : proportional representation result LDP ( MS Excel ; 163 kB)
  5. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , Sangiin election results 2013, proportional representation: Liberal Democratic Party ( Memento of September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 23, 2013)
  6. ↑ web-japan.org , accessed July 9, 2012.
  7. ↑ LDP Sapporo: 歴 代 会長 ・ 幹事 長 ("Historical Chairmen and General Secretaries")
  8. ↑ a b articles.chicagotribune.com , accessed July 9, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Hashimoto, Seiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 橋本 聖 子 (Japanese); Ishizaki Seiko (maiden name); 石 崎 聖 子 (maiden name, Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese female athlete in speed skating and track cycling
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hayakita , Hokkaido Prefecture