Toshiko Takeya
Toshiko Takeya ( Japanese 竹 谷 と し 子 , Takeya Toshiko , married Kikuchi ( 菊 地 ); born September 30, 1969 in Shibetsu , Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese politician of the Kōmeitō and since 2010 one of the ten → twelve representatives of Tokyo Prefecture in the Sangiin , the upper house of the national parliament .
Takeya studied after graduating from the affiliated high school at the economics faculty of Sōka University . There she also acquired the qualification as kōnin kaikeishi , a state-certified auditor. After graduating in 1992, she first worked for Tōmatsu, then from 1996 for Abeam Consulting KK, for which she was deployed several times abroad, including on development projects in Southeast Asia.
In the Sangiin election in 2010 , Takeya switched to politics and took over the Kōmeitō candidacy in Tokyo from Yūji Sawa , who retired for reasons of age. She received over 800 thousand votes, reaching second place behind Renhō Murata ( DPJ ). From 2013 to 2014 she chaired the Sangiin Special Disaster Committee (saigai taisaku tokubetsu iinkai) , from 2014 to 2015 ( Shinzō Abe III cabinet ) she was Parliamentary State Secretary ( daijinseimukan ) in the Ministry of Finance . In the 2016 Sangiin election , in which the Tokyo prefectural constituency was enlarged to six seats, Takeya was re-elected in third place with 770,535 votes (12.3%).
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Sangiin : Member Profile (Japanese, English )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Sangiin 2016 election results, majority election, Tokyo
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Takeya, Toshiko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 竹 谷 と し 子 (Japanese); 菊 地 と し 子 (preal name); Kikuchi, Toshiko (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shibetsu (Nemuro) , Hokkaidō |