Yoko Komiyama
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Yoko Komiyama | |
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小宮山 洋子 | |
Minister of State for Measures for Declining Birthrate | |
In office 23 April 2012 – 1 October 2012 | |
Prime Minister | Yoshihiko Noda |
Preceded by | Masaharu Nakagawa |
Succeeded by | Ikko Nakatsuka |
Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare | |
In office 2 September 2011 – 1 October 2012 | |
Prime Minister | Yoshihiko Noda |
Preceded by | Ritsuo Hosokawa |
Succeeded by | Wakio Mitsui |
Member of the House of Representatives | |
In office April 2003 – 16 November 2012 | |
Preceded by | Kōki Ishii |
Succeeded by | Takao Ochi |
Constituency | Tokyo 6th (2003–2005; 2009–2012) Tokyo PR (2005–2009) |
Member of the House of Councillors | |
In office 26 July 1998 – 15 April 2003 | |
Constituency | National PR |
Personal details | |
Born | Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan | 17 September 1948
Political party | Democratic |
Alma mater | Seijo University |
Yoko Komiyama (小宮山 洋子, Komiyama Yōko, born September 17, 1948) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Shibuya, Tokyo and graduate of Seijo University, she worked at the public broadcaster NHK from 1972 to 1998. She was elected to the House of Councilors for the first time in 1998 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in April 2003. In September 2011 she was appointed Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Japan Times, "Cabinet Profiles: Noda Cabinet", 3 September 2011, p. 3.
Additional sources
[edit]External links
[edit]- Official website in Japanese.
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- Members of the House of Councillors (Japan)
- Women government ministers of Japan
- Women members of the House of Representatives (Japan)
- Women members of the House of Councillors (Japan)
- People from Shibuya
- Living people
- 1948 births
- Democratic Party of Japan politicians
- Ministers of health, labour and welfare of Japan
- Noda cabinet
- 21st-century Japanese women politicians
- Seijo University alumni
- Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2003–2005
- Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2005–2009
- Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2009–2012
- Japanese politician, 1940s birth stubs