Mio Sugita

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Mio Sugita ( Japanese 杉 田 水 脈 , Sugita Mio ; born April 22, 1967 in Kobe , Hyōgo ) is a Japanese politician ( Minna → Ishin → Jisedai → Kokoro → LDP ( Hosoda faction )) and since 2017 she has been a member of the Shūgiin for the second time , the lower house of the national parliament , currently for the Chūgoku proportional representation .

Life and education

Sugita graduated from Tottori University's Faculty of Agriculture in 1990. In 1993 she married an engineer and has a daughter.

In 1992 she became an employee of the city of Nishinomiya . She later became a member of the economically liberal Minna no Tō, founded in 2009 . In 2010 she left the city administration and became chairwoman of constituency association 6 of Minna no Tō Hyōgo [= candidate in the associated House of Representatives constituency], but switched to the newly founded regionalist and right-wing populist Nippon Ishin no Kai before the Shūgiin election in 2012 .

In the 2012 election, Sugita ran for Ishin no Kai in the 6th constituency of Hyōgo ( yes: 兵 庫 県 第 6 区 ) and was defeated by Masaki Ōgushi (LDP), but with a sekihairitsu ("loss rate") of 79.2% in order to reach the last Ishin position in the Kinki proportional representation block that was sufficient for an election. In 2014 she switched to the right-wing conservative Jisedai no Tō ("Party of the Next Generation", later renamed twice) when the Ishin no Kai split . In the 2014 Shūgiin election , at 10.5%, it was only just above the 10% threshold for reimbursing the constituency deposit (3 million yen , approx. 25,000 euros). She also did not win a proportional representation (Jisedai won 0 seats in Kinki). She later moved to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). According to the right-wing conservative journalist Yoshiko Sakurai, this is due to the fact that Prime Minister Shinzō Abe , who is also the LDP chairman, strongly supports Sugita's political views and therefore should have campaigned for Sugita to join the LDP. The LDP did not give her a constituency candidacy and eventually transferred her to the Chūgoku proportional representation block for the 2017 Shūgiin election . There she gave her the list position 17 behind the double candidates. Since the majority election in Chūgoku was successful for the LDP and only one double candidate lost his constituency, she was chosen relatively safely as the second of five LDP proportional representation winners.

Political controversy

Day nurseries

In July 2016, Sugita wrote an article in the Sankei Shimbun that contradicted an increase in the number of day nurseries (hoikuen) . In it, she argues that children should be raised by their mother if possible and that day nurseries encourage children to "brainwash" their mindsets. She cites Soviet pedagogy as a comparable example .

Comfort women

In 2013, Sugita joined the Japan's Rebirth Study Group in Los Angeles with the other members of the Nippon Ishin no Kai, Yuzuru Nishida and Hiromu Nakamaru, to request the removal of a statue in Glendale , Los Angeles County, California. The statue commemorates 200,000 comfort women from Korea and other countries who were forced into sex slavery by Japanese soldiers during World War II. The three politicians also stated that they would like the Japanese Foreign Ministry to withdraw an apology to the comfort women from the 1990s.

Shiori Itō rape case

In 2018, Sugita appeared in the BBC documentary Japan's Secret Shame , which detailed the alleged rape of journalist Shiori Itō . In the interview, Sugita was quoted as saying, "In this case, she clearly made mistakes in her role as a woman by drinking so much in front of a man and losing her memory." She continued, "With things like that, I think that the men are the ones who suffer considerable harm. ”Sugita seemed to mock Itō with the words Makura eigyo daishippai (for example,“ pillow trade: total failure ”). When Mainichi called Shimbun Sugita about the documentary, Mainichi said the video had been edited to misrepresent her intentions and was considering releasing her own footage of the interview.

Sugita was criticized by Lully Miura, a lecturer at the Policy Alternatives Research Institute at the University of Tokyo . She wrote, “This is behavior that spreads the misconception that rape is inevitable when women get drunk in front of men. A feeling of aversion towards women who stand strongly against men seems to be anchored in Sugita's attitude. "

LGBT problems

In 2015 Sugita joined together with the music composer Koichi Sugiyama and the upper house -Abgeordneten Kyoko Nakayama on the television program Hi Izuru Kuni Yori in the right-wing television station Nihon Bunka Channel Sakura on in which they claimed that there was no need for LGBT education in schools. In July 2018, Sugita wrote an article in a magazine in which she described LGBT couples as "unproductive" because they could not bear children and were therefore not worth investing in taxpayers' money. Her comments have been condemned by various prominent Japanese politicians, including former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama . Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters on July 27, 2018 to demand that they step down as MPs. Two months later, a group of LGBT politicians and mayors demanded that they be accountable for the comments.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 杉 田 水 脈 | 国会 議員 | 議員 情報 | 議員 ・ 役 員 情報 | 自由 民主党 ( yes ) In: www.jimin.jp . Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ 国会 議員 情報 ： 杉 田 水 脈 （す ぎ た み お） ： 時事 ド ッ ト コ ム (yes-JP) . In: 時事 ド ッ ト コ ム . Retrieved July 26, 2018. 
  3. ↑ 杉 田 水 脈 の 結婚 し た 旦 那 (夫) や 子 供 は？ 若 い 頃 の 顔 画像 や や 整形 疑惑 を 調査！ (yes-JP) . Retrieved September 7, 2018. 
  4. ↑ Japan Should Aim to Create an Independent Constitution, Not Reform the Present One | Apple Town ( en-US ) In: en.apa-appletown.com . Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  5. ↑ 衆院 選 ２０１４> 兵 庫 ６ 区 Shūinsen 2014> Hyōgo 6-ku , German 'Abg.hauswahl 2014> Wahlkreis Hyōgo 6' . In: NHK Senkyo Web. 2014, accessed March 1, 2019 (Japanese).
  6. ↑ な ぜ 杉 田 水 脈 議員 は 過激 発 言 を 繰 り 返 し “出世” し た の か ── 女性 女性 が 女性 を 叩 く 構 図 は 誰 が 作 っ た か . In: Business Insider . August 1, 2018. Retrieved April 24, 2019 (Japanese).
  7. ↑ 衆院 選 2017> 比例 代表> 中国 ブ ロ ッ ク 自由 民主党 Shūinsen 2017> hirei daihyō> Chūgoku burokku jiyūminshutō , German 'General House Election 2017> proportional representation> Block Chūgoku> Liberal Democratic Party' . In: NHK Senkyo Web. 2017, Retrieved March 1, 2019 (Japanese).
  8. ↑ SANKEI DIGITAL INC .: 【杉田水脈のなでしこリポート(8)】 「保育園落ちた,日本死ね」論争は前提が間違っています日本を貶めたい勢力の真の狙いとは... (ja-JP) . In: 産 経 ニ ュ ー ス . Retrieved July 26, 2018. 
  9. ↑ Arin Mikailian: Court rules in favor of memorial to comfort women . In: latimes.com . Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  10. ↑ a b Brittany Levine: Japanese politicians want Glendale's 'comfort women' statue removed (en-US) . In: Los Angeles Times , December 19, 2013. Retrieved July 26, 2018. 
  11. ^ Mark Schreiber: US towns pulled into Japanese politics (en-US) . In: The Japan Times Online , April 25, 2015. Retrieved July 26, 2018. 
  12. ↑ Japan's Secret Shame. Retrieved July 26, 2018 (UK English).
  13. ↑ Woman received death threats after accusing Japanese celebrity of rape . In: Mail Online . Retrieved July 26, 2018. 
  14. ↑ Woman's fight highlights rape taboo in Japan (en-US) . In: The Irish Times . Retrieved July 26, 2018. 
  15. ↑ a b LDP lawmaker draws fire over comment on alleged rape victim in BBC documentary (en) . In: Mainichi Daily News , July 7, 2018. Retrieved July 26, 2018. 
  16. ↑ Lynzee Loveridge, Jennifer Sherman: Square Enix Responds to Dragon Quest Composer's 2015 Anti-LGBTQ Statements . In: AnimeNewsNetwork . Retrieved August 7, 2018.
  17. ↑ Japanese politician under fire for claiming LGBT couples are 'unproductive' ( en-GB ) In: The Independent . Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  18. ↑ Tomohiro Osaki: Thousands rally to protest LDP lawmaker Mio Sugita's remark calling LGBT people 'unproductive' (en-US) . In: The Japan Times Online , July 27, 2018. Retrieved July 26, 2018. 
  19. ↑ LGBT politicians seek explanation from LDP Diet member Mio Sugita after controversial commentary about same-sex couples (en-US) . In: The Japan Times Online , September 5, 2018. Retrieved September 7, 2018. 

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personal data
SURNAME Sugita, Mio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 杉 田 水 脈 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician and MP
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Kōbeshi , Hyōgoken