Yuriko Koike

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Yuriko Koike (2017)

Yuriko Koike ( Japanese 小池 百合 子 , Koike Yuriko ; born July 15, 1952 in Ashiya , Hyōgo prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese politician ( NJP → NFP → LP → KP → LDP → ToFi → ToFi / Kibō → ToFi) and has been since 2016 Governor of Tokyo in eastern Japan. From 1992 to 1993 she was a member of the House of Lords for the national proportional representation constituency and from 1993 to 2016 a member of the House of Commons , initially from Hyōgo ( (multi-mandate) constituency 2 → constituency 6 ) and from 2005 from Tokyo (constituency 10). Time magazine chose her as one of the One Hundred Most Influential People in 2017 .

biography

Career

Yuriko Koike attended a municipal elementary school in Ashiya, then the Kōnan girls' middle and high school ( Kōnan joshi chūgakkō / kōtōgakkō ), a private school affiliated with the Kōnan University in Hyōgo's capital Kōbe . Her studies took her from 1971 to the Kwansei Gakuin University and from 1972 to the American University in Cairo . In 1976 she completed her studies in sociology at the University of Cairo with a Bachelor of Arts . After that, she worked mainly as an interpreter , journalist and a recognized expert on the Arabic language and culture. Gradually, voluntary political positions were added to this profile.

In 1992 she moved into the House of Lords on the New Japan Party's proportional representation list . A year later she moved to the lower house, where she was able to gain a direct mandate in the 2nd constituency of Hyōgo prefecture . Koike later moved to the New Progressive Party , after its dissolution in the Liberal Party of Ichirō Ozawa and finally the Conservative Party , before joining the LDP in 2002. She joined the Mori faction . In the new elections in 2005 she was set up as a loyal Koizumi supporter and proponent of post-privatization in the 10th constituency of Tōkyō against the "LDP rebel" Kōki Kobayashi ( New Party Japan ) and elected with a clear lead. In 2009 she lost the constituency to the Democrat Takako Ebata .

Minister

Yuriko Koike (2008)

In the Third Koizumi Cabinet , Koike was Minister of Environment and Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs .

At the beginning of July 2007, the then Prime Minister Shinzō named Abe Koike as the successor to the former Defense Minister Fumio Kyūma , who resigned because of controversial comments on the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Koike himself came in late August 2007 itself back what with the leakage of secret details in the co-production of American -Japanese AEGIS - destroyer was related what Koike, wanted to take responsibility which until then no one had done before. Japanese media suspect, however, a failed personnel decision by Koike as the background to the resignation. She wanted to replace her deputy, Takemasa Moriya, in the actual connection with the information leak, but was unable to assert herself against the responsible cabinet secretary, Yasuhisa Shiozaki , who claimed that he had not been informed in good time. The ensuing public argument caused Koike's loss of face , which in turn called her reappointment in the wake of an upcoming cabinet change by Prime Minister Abe into question. On August 16, she refused to resign and criticized Cabinet Secretary Shiozaki.

In 2008 she was the first woman to run for election to the LDP presidency , which is usually linked to the office of prime minister . She landed behind Tarō Asō and Kaoru Yosano in third place. From 2010 to 2011 Koike received under the party chairman Sadakazu Tanigaki as chairman of the executive council (sōmukai) of the LDP for the first time one of the "three party offices" . Koike is one of five vice-general secretaries of the Nippon Kaigi, which is considered revisionist .

Tokyo Prefecture Governor

Winner of the 2016 gubernatorial election by municipality (Koike green, Masuda red): Especially in the special districts and urban districts of Tokyo, Koike won by a clear margin, most clearly in the Toshima district in her former constituency 10, but she also won in most of the more rural communities in the West; only in the village of Hinohara and some of the island communities did Masuda receive the most votes.

After her exit from national politics, she sat in the gubernatorial election in Tokyo in 2016 with 44.5% of the vote against the former governor of Iwate, Hiroya Masuda ( LDP , Kōmeitō , Kokoro ; 27.4%), the left candidate Shuntarō Torigoe ( DP , KPJ , SDP , Net , Seikatsu , NSP , Greens ; 20.6%) and 18 other competitors and was the first woman to be introduced to this position. Her predecessor Yōichi Masuzoe had resigned because of an expense scandal. The LDP did not support her candidacy. She founded the Kibō no Juku ( 希望 の 塾 ; about "School of Hope") for the regional parliamentary elections in Tokyo in 2017 in order to support the regional party Tomin First no Kai ( 都 民 フ ァ ー ス ト の 会 ; about "Association of Prefectural Citizens First ", With" prefecture "clearly referring to Tokyo, since Tōkyō is the only -to , the other 46 prefectures are -dō , -fu or -ken ) candidates. With this she aimed at a sole absolute majority and wanted to weaken the LDP in the prefectural parliament. On June 1, 2017, Koike left the LDP and officially took over the chairmanship of Tomin First no Kai . Koike finally managed to become the strongest force in parliament and significantly weaken the LDP. She was initially able to achieve the desired absolute majority in parliament through her alliance with Kōmeitō and Tōkyō Seikatsusha Network ; the Kōmeitō left this in November 2017 in view of Koike's activities at the national level. It no longer has a party majority in parliament.

Intermediate return to national politics

On September 25, 2017, Koike founded the conservative party Kibō no Tō ( 希望 の 党 ; "Party of Hope") together with nine lower and upper house members in view of the Shūgiin election 2017 and appointed himself chairman. The Democratic Progressive Party then announced that it did not want to put up its own candidates for the election and assured its members that they would support them in the event of a candidacy for the Kibō no Tō. These measures resulted in a fundamental restructuring of the opposition parties in a relatively short period of time. For example, Koike's former colleague from the New Japan Party , Yukio Edano , founded the left-liberal Constitutional Democratic Party ( KDP for short ) in early October 2017 . Koike herself did not run for a seat in the House of Commons, otherwise she would have had to resign as governor. The KDP was finally able to win a higher number of seats (54) than the Kibō no Tō (50) and the governing coalition of LDP and Kōmeitō defend their two-thirds majority. Koike described the election result as a "defeat", especially since the party had put up 235 candidates, which corresponds to a little more than half of the available seats. As a result, she resigned from her position as party leader on November 14, 2017 and, according to her own statement, wants to concentrate on prefectural politics again in the future.

In the gubernatorial election in July 2020 , Koike was sovereignly re-elected for a second term of office against 21 candidates with an absolute majority.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Time : Yuriko Koike , accessed April 21, 2017
  2. ↑ Koike decides to leave post, cites responsibility over information leak . Article ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Japan News Review August 25, 2007. Access on 9 September, 2007.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.japannewsreview.com
  3. ↑ Koike refuses to back down . Report ( memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) of the Asahi Shimbun from August 16, 2007. Accessed September 9, 2007.
  4. ↑ AFP, September 8, 2008: Koike launches bid to be Japan's first woman PM ( Memento from May 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Tokyo Prefecture Administration , Election Oversight Commission: Turnout and results of the gubernatorial election on July 31, 2016 (pdf / excel)
  6. ↑ Japan Times : Former environment minister Yuriko Koike wins landslide election as Tokyo's first female governor (English), accessed August 1, 2016
  7. ↑ Mainichi Shimbun : Koike will not work with LDP in Tokyo assembly election , accessed April 21, 2017
  8. ↑ Koike bolts LDP to take helmet of Tomin First no Kai ahead of Tokyo assembly race. In: The Japan Times . Kyodo News , June 1, 2017, accessed June 14, 2017 .
  9. ↑ 都 議会 公 明 が 小池 氏 と の 連 携 を 解 消 「支持 勢力」 過半数 割 れ へ . In: Sankei News . November 15, 2017. Retrieved October 17, 2017 (Japanese).
  10. ↑ 「希望 の 党」 設立 を 届 け 出 国会 議員 は ９ 人 . In: Nihon TV . September 25, 2017. Retrieved October 2, 2017 (Japanese).
  11. ^ Reiji Yoshida: Democratic Party effectively disbands, throwing support behind Koike's party for Lower House poll. In: The Japan Times . September 28, 2017, accessed October 2, 2017 .
  12. ↑ 希望 ・ 小池 代表 が 辞 任 ＝ 後任 に 玉 木 氏 . In: Jiji Tsūshinsha . November 14, 2017. Retrieved November 17, 2017 (Japanese).
predecessor Office successor
Fumio Kyūma Minister of Defense
July-August 2007 		Masahiko Kōmura
personal data
SURNAME Koike, Yuriko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 小池 百合 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Ashiya , Japan