Sanae Takaichi

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Sanae Takaichi ( Jap. 高市早苗 , Takaichi Sanae , actually married Yamamoto Sanae ( 山本早苗 ); * 7. March 1961 ) is a Japanese politician (independent → LP → NFP → LDP ) MPs from Nara in the House of Representatives , the lower house of National Assembly , and since September 2019 Minister of General Affairs ( sōmu-daijin ) in the fourth Abe cabinet, which has been transformed for the second time . She had already held this office from 2014 to 2017 in the second and third Abe cabinet (including reorganizations). She does not belong to any faction in the LDP today , but after joining was initially a member of the Mitsuzuka → Mori → Machimura → Hosoda faction , which has dominated in recent years .

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Takaichi, a graduate of the prefectural Unebi High School Nara in the city of Kashihara and the economics faculty of the University of Kobe , graduated from the Matsushita seikei juku , the cadre forge for political executives founded by the Matsushita-Denki-Sangyō- Corporation (today: Panasonic) and economy. She then worked from 1987 to 1989 in the USA as a Congressional Fellow for the Democrat Patricia Schroeder , then a member of the Colorado House of Representatives, the lower house of the US Congress .

In the upper house election in 1992 Takaichi applied as a non-party candidate in her home prefecture of Nara (one seat per partial election), but was subject to the official LDP candidate Minao Hattori . A year later she applied for the 1993 general election in Nara (at that time as zenken-ku, a five-seat constituency for the entire prefecture) and won a seat with the highest percentage of votes among eight candidates. She initially voted in the election of the prime minister with the now opposition for the first time LDP, but joined the Liberal Party of Kōji Kakizawa in 1994 , which participated in the Hata cabinet , after the LDP's return to the government in the jiyū kaikaku rengō ("liberal reform union") and finally in late 1994 for the most part in the NFP. For this she denied after the electoral reform in the 1996 election, the new single-mandate constituency Nara 1, which essentially consists of the city ​​of Nara , and prevailed against Masahiro Morioka (LDP) and two candidates from the CPJ and DPJ . In the same year she joined the LDP under Ryūtarō Hashimoto , after the latter had ended the formal coalition with the socialists, who had been renamed Social Democrats and reduced to a small party, and restored the LDP sole government.

For the LDP, Takaichi now had the LDP candidacy in the 1st constituency according to the so-called "Costa Rica method" ( kosuta rika hōshiki ; spread after the electoral reform and also used after the NFP dissolution to the constituency candidates in the new single-mandate constituencies to be distributed among several LDP incumbents) alternately with Masahiro Morioka. She ran in the general election in 2000 exclusively in the proportional representation segment via the Kinki block and was elected, again in the constituency in 2003 , but there was defeated by the Democrat Sumio Mabuchi and also missed re-election in the proportional representation. In the lower house, Takaichi was from 2001 to 2002 chairman of the culture and science committee newly established with the ministry of the same name . After that she was “Vice Minister” in the Ministry of Economics and Industry until 2003 . In 2004 she married her political companion Taku Yamamoto (also Liberal Party → NFP → LDP), a member of the lower house of Fukui , she continues to use her established maiden name for her political work. In 2004, she became a professor in the Faculty of Economics at Kinki University .

In 2005 Makoto Taki from the constituency of Nara 2 joined the "rebels" against the post-privatization operated by Jun'ichirō Koizumi . In the resulting “post-privatization election” in 2005 , Takaichi Koizumi's “assassin candidate” in constituency 2 and won. She was narrowly defeated by Taki in 2009 , but won a proportional representation in the Kinki block, and in 2012 she prevailed again in the constituency. Koizumi's successor, Shinzō Abe , appointed Takaichi to a cabinet for the first time in 2006, in whose first government she was Minister at the Cabinet Office for Special Tasks: Okinawa and the “Northern Territories” (South Kuril Islands), science and technology policy, innovation, declining birth rates, gender equality and food safety . From 2008 to 2009 she was again "Vice Minister" in the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

In 2012 Abe took over the party chairmanship for a second time, after the victorious general election in 2012 he appointed Takaichi as PARC chairman in the narrowest circle of the party leadership - although the PARC no longer occupies the central position of earlier decades in policy formulation and has recently been partially ousted by external consultants . During a cabinet reshuffle in September 2014 , she moved to the cabinet as Minister for General Affairs and was  replaced by Seiko Noda in 2017 . Since 2019, Takaichi has held this post again in the fourth Abe cabinet, which has been reorganized for the most part. Like Prime Minister Abe and other cabinet and LDP party members, she is close to Nippon Kaigi , who is considered revisionist

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  1. ↑ http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2994558
personal data
SURNAME Takaichi, Sanae
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 高市 早苗 (Japanese); Yamamoto, Sanae; 山 本 早苗 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1961