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Yoko Komiyama

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Yoko Komiyama
小宮山 洋子
Official portrait, 2010
Minister of State for Measures for Declining Birthrate
In office
23 April 2012 – 1 October 2012
Prime MinisterYoshihiko Noda
Preceded byMasaharu Nakagawa
Succeeded byIkko Nakatsuka
Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare
In office
2 September 2011 – 1 October 2012
Prime MinisterYoshihiko Noda
Preceded byRitsuo Hosokawa
Succeeded byWakio Mitsui
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
April 2003 – 16 November 2012
Preceded byKōki Ishii
Succeeded byTakao Ochi
ConstituencyTokyo 6th (2003–2005; 2009–2012)
Tokyo PR (2005–2009)
Member of the House of Councillors
In office
26 July 1998 – 15 April 2003
ConstituencyNational PR
Personal details
Born (1948-09-17) 17 September 1948 (age 76)
Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Political partyDemocratic
Alma materSeijo 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]

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  1. ^ Japan Times, "Cabinet Profiles: Noda Cabinet", 3 September 2011, p. 3.

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Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
2011–2012
Succeeded by
Preceded by Senior Vice Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
2010–2011
Served alongside: Osamu Fujimura, Kōhei Ōtsuka
Succeeded by
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House of Representatives (Japan)
Preceded by Representative for Tokyo 6th district
2009–present
Incumbent
Preceded by
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Representative for the Tōkyō PR block
2005–2009
Succeeded by
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Vacant
Title last held by
Kōki Ishii
Representative for Tokyo 6th district
2003–2005
Succeeded by
House of Councillors
Preceded by
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Councillor by proportional representation
1998–2003
Succeeded by
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