Yōko Kamikawa
Yōko Kamikawa ( Japanese 上 川 陽 子 , Kamikawa Yōko ; born March 1, 1953 in Shizuoka , Shizuoka Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house, for the 1st constituency of Shizuoka Prefecture . She was Minister of Justice from 2014 to 2015 (Cabinets Abe II (restructuring) and Abe III ) and from 2017 to 2018 (Cabinets Shinzō Abe III (3rd restructuring) and Abe IV ) .
Kamikawa studied international relations at the University of Tokyo until 1977 . She then worked for the Mitsubishi Research Institute . In 1988 she obtained a Masters degree from Harvard Kennedy School as a Fulbright student . During this time she was also an employee of the US Senator Max Baucus . Afterwards she was President of the Globalink Research Institute.
From 2000 Kamikawa belonged to the Shūgiin for the 1st constituency of Shizuoka (2003 to 2005 via proportional representation). Within the LDP she belonged to the Koga faction . From November 2005 Kamikawa was parliamentary state secretary ( daijin seimukan , English parliamentary secretary ) in Sōmushō ("Ministry of General Affairs", English "Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication"). Prime Minister Shinzō Abe appointed her as Minister of State for Gender Equality and Combating the Decline of Births in August 2007 during his government reshuffle . Like many ministers in Abe's cabinet, she had to admit mistakes in her annual reports on political money. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda took Kamikawa into his cabinet , but no longer considered her in the cabinet reshuffle in August 2008.
In the Shūgiin election in 2009 Kamikawa lost her constituency to Seishū Makino ( Democratic Party ) and also missed re-election through the Tōkai proportional representation. In the 2012 election , her result in the constituency of Shizuoka 1 deteriorated only slightly (2009: 96,096 votes 37.6%; 2012: 81,278, 36.2%), she was able to prevail against a now fragmented field of candidates and moved to Shūgiin for the fourth time a. From September 2013 to September 2014 Kamikawa was "Vice Minister" ( fuku-daijin , English government translation currently "state minister"; not to be confused with "minister of state" for kokumu daijin or "minister of state" for naikaku-fu tokumei) in Sōmushō tantō daijin ). She then took over the chairmanship of the Shūgiin Social and Work Committee. In October 2014, Shinzō Abe Kamikawa reappointed the cabinet, where she replaced the resigned Justice Minister Midori Matsushima and held this post up to and including Abe's third cabinet . From the cabinet reshuffle of August 3, 2017 to the cabinet reshuffle in October 2018 , she was again Minister of Justice.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kamikawa, Yōko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 上 川 陽 子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shizuoka , Shizuoka Prefecture |