Yōko Kamikawa
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Yōko Kamikawa | |
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上川 陽子 | |
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Minister of Justice | |
Assumed office 16 September 2020 | |
Prime Minister | Yoshihide Suga |
Preceded by | Masako Mori |
In office 3 August 2017 – 2 October 2018 | |
Prime Minister | Shinzō Abe |
Preceded by | Katsutoshi Kaneda |
Succeeded by | Takashi Yamashita |
In office 20 October 2014 – 7 October 2015 | |
Prime Minister | Shinzō Abe |
Preceded by | Midori Matsushima |
Succeeded by | Mitsuhide Iwaki |
Member of the House of Representatives | |
Assumed office 16 December 2012 | |
Constituency | Shizuoka 1st district |
In office 25 June 2000 – 30 August 2009 | |
Preceded by | Yoshinori Oguchi |
Succeeded by | |
Constituency | Shizuoka 1st district |
Personal details | |
Born | Shizuoka, Japan | 1 March 1953
Political party | Liberal Democratic Party |
Education | University of Tokyo (BA) Harvard University (MPA) |
Yōko Kamikawa (上川 陽子, Kamikawa Yōko, 1 March 1953), Japanese politician and former think-tank researcher, has been the Minister of Justice since September 2020. Kamikawa previously served as Minister of State for Gender Equality and Social Affairs in the cabinets of Shinzō Abe and Yasuo Fukuda. She has been a member of the House of Representatives since December 2012.
Born in the city of Shizuoka in Shizuoka Prefecture, she graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1977. In 1988 she received a master's degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in June 2000.
During her time in office, Kamikawa has ordered 16 executions, 13 of those executed being former members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, whose acts of domestic terrorism included the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. [1]
References[]
- "Minister of State for Regulatory Reform". Retrieved September 30, 2007.
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