Yukiko Kada

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Governor Kada in June 2007
The location of the planned Minami-Biwako ( 南 び わ 湖 駅 ) station on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen in the urban area of Rittō , which was abandoned in 2007, still says in 2007: "Opening 2012".

Yukiko Kada ( Japanese 嘉 田 由 紀 子 , Kada Yukiko ; born May 18, 1950 in Honjō , Saitama Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and has been a member of the Senate for Shiga Prefecture since 2019 , the upper house of the national parliament , where she leads the Hekisuikai small faction . She was the governor of Shiga from 2006 to 2014.

Kada is a graduate of Kyoto University's Faculty of Agriculture . During her studies she lived in Tanzania for half a year in 1972 . After graduating in 1973, she continued her studies at the University of Wisconsin . She then stayed in research, initially at the Lake Biwa Research Institute, and later at Kyoto Seika University, where she had been Professor of Environmental Sociology since 2000 .

In 2006, she left university to run for the governor's post in Shiga. Their demands during the election campaign included construction stops for new Shinkansen stations, dam projects and a landfill in Shiga . Your candidacy was supported by the Social Democratic Party (SDP). In the election on July 2, 2006, she prevailed with 217,842 votes against incumbent Yoshitsugu Kunimatsu (185,344 votes), who was supported by the LDP , the DPJ and the Kōmeitō . She was the first female governor of Shiga Prefecture, the fifth in the country. In the 2010 election , she was re-elected with 63% of the vote with the support of the DPJ and SDP.

In November 2012, Kada founded the Nippon Mirai no Tō ("Future Party of Japan") for the Shūgiin election in 2012 , which sought to phase out nuclear power, reduce the disadvantage of women in the Japanese world of work and improve conditions for families with children. The party gathered many MPs, most of whom had previously resigned from the governing parties, in particular the DPJ split from Ichirō Ozawa , but split again shortly after the election, in which they fell from 62 to 9 seats. Only one MP remained in the party. In Shiga, Kada was criticized for her dual role in national and prefectural politics and resigned from party leadership in January 2013.

For the 2014 gubernatorial election , Kada retired after two terms, and Taizō Mikazuki , supported by her, was elected as her successor.

In the 2017 House of Representatives election , Kada ran as an independent opposition candidate in the Shiga 1 constituency, but lost around 5,000 votes to LDP incumbent Toshitaka Ōoka . In the 2019 Senate election , Kada ran for the left opposition ( KDP , DVP , KPJ , SDP ) in Shiga and won just under 14,000 votes ahead of LDP predecessor Takeshi Ninoyu . She then founded the Hekisuikai ( 碧水 会 ) faction together with the newly elected opposition MP Takako Nagae from Ehime .

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  1. Eric Johnston: For women, against reactors. Shiga's Kada readies party; Ozawa joins. (No longer available online.) In: The Japan Times . November 27, 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on November 27, 2012 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.japantimes.co.jp
  2. 嘉 田 由 紀 子 、 永 江孝子 の 両 氏 が 新 会 派 「碧水 会」」. In: Mainichi Shimbun . July 30, 2019, Retrieved August 8, 2019 (Japanese).