Seiko Noda

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Seiko Noda (2008)

Seiko Noda ( Japanese 野 田 聖 子 , Noda Seiko ; born September 3, 1960 in Kitakyūshū , Fukuoka Prefecture as Seiko Shima ( 島 聖 子 , Shima Seiko )) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), member of the Shūgiin , the lower house, and former post and interior minister . She does not currently belong to any faction within the party .

Life

Noda was born the eldest daughter of a Nippon Steel employee, her grandfather and later adoptive father Uichi was a member of the Shūgiin from Gifu Prefecture and a former minister of construction. After attending the Futaba and Jonesville high schools in Ōta and Jonesville , she studied comparative cultural studies at Sophia University . After graduating in 1983, she initially worked for the Teikoku Hotel ( Imperial Hotel ). A year later she was adopted by her grandfather and took the name Noda.

In 1986, Noda was elected to the Gifu Prefectural Parliament. In 1990 she ran as an independent for the first time for the Shūgiin, but was only elected in the following election in 1993 as an LDP candidate in the 1st constituency of Gifu. She has been re-elected eight times since then, since 1996 in the new constituency of Gifu 1. Within the party, she first joined the Kōmoto faction .

In 1996, Noda was Parliamentary State Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the Ministry of Post under Prime Minister Ryūtarō Hashimoto . In 1998 she appointed Keizo Obuchi as Minister of Post, in 1999 she was replaced by Eita Yashiro . In 2005, she opposed the privatization of the state mail operated by Jun'ichirō Koizumi , voted against the privatization law and had to run in the resulting new elections without the support of the LDP. Koizumi put on as an "assassin" candidate Yukari Satō against Noda, which however remained victorious with 96,985 to 81,189 votes.

In 2006 Noda returned to the LDP, but did not join any faction there. In 2008 she prevailed in a new duel with Satō for the LDP candidacy in the 1st constituency of Gifu, which the media dubbed the "Battle of the Madonnas". In August of the same year, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was appointed Minister of State as one of two women in a cabinet reshuffle. She remained in the Asō cabinet until September 2009 as Minister of State for Food Safety, Science and Technology, Consumer Protection and Space. In the Shūgiin election in 2009 , Noda lost her constituency and was only re-elected through the Tōkai proportional representation.

In the Shūgiin election in 2012 , she was able to win back the constituency of Gifu 1 for the LDP with almost 50% of the votes. Then Shinzō Abe appointed her as executive council chairwoman in the inner circle of the party leadership . In 2014 she was replaced by Toshihiro Nikai . In autumn 2015, she wanted to compete against Abe in the election for the LDP chairmanship , but did not find the 20 supporters necessary for a candidacy.

Noda was married to Shūgiin MP Yōsuke Tsuruho ( Conservative Party ; later LDP, Nikai faction ) from 2001 to 2007 .

Prime Minister Shinzō Abe appointed Noda on August 3, 2017 as Minister of the Interior in the Shinzō Abe III cabinet, which was reorganized for the third time . On October 2, 2018 , she was replaced by Masatoshi Ishida .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Masami Itō: Noda wins 'madonna' turf war as LDP shunts Sato to Tokyo. One-time Koizumi 'assassin' candidate agrees to yield. In: The Japan Times Online. February 9, 2008; archived from the original on February 14, 2008 ; accessed on August 3, 2008 .
  2. ↑ Abe remains LDP president after Noda fails to build enough support to run. In: The Japan Times . September 8, 2015, accessed October 13, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Noda, Seiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 野 田 聖 子 (Japanese); 島 聖 子 (Japanese, maiden name); Shima Seiko (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Kitakyushu , Fukuoka Prefecture , Japan