Yasuko Ikenobō
Yasuko Ikenobō | |
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池坊 保子 | |
Member of the House of Representatives | |
In office 21 October 1996 – 16 November 2012 | |
Constituency | |
Personal details | |
Born | 18 April 1942 Tokyo |
Political party | Komeito |
Spouse(s) | Sen'ei Ikenobō (m. 1963) |
Children | Yuki Ikenobō Mika Ikenobō |
Alma mater | Gakushuin University |
Yasuko Ikenobō (池坊 保子, Ikenobō Yasuko, born April 18, 1942) (née Umetani) is a Japanese politician.
Biography[]
She was born in Tokyo the third daughter of Viscount Michitora Umetani, head of a former kuge family and Member of the House of Peers. She enrolled but later left Gakushuin University in 1961. She has been married to Sen'ei Ikenobō (池坊 専永), the Ikenobō family patriarch, since 1963 and has two daughters, Yuki (池坊 由紀), the next head of the family, and Mika (池坊 美佳).
She was elected to the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) for the first time in 1996 as a member of the New Frontier Party, which later split into several parties including the New Komeito Party.
She was a Komeito politician, but she was not a member of Sōka Gakkai as former Councillor and Councillor .
References[]
- 政治家情報 〜池坊 保子〜. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2007-10-16. External link in
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External links[]
- Official blog in Japanese.
- 1942 births
- 20th-century Japanese politicians
- 20th-century women politicians
- 21st-century Japanese politicians
- 21st-century women politicians
- Female members of the House of Representatives (Japan)
- Gakushuin University alumni
- Kadōka
- Living people
- Members of the House of Representatives (Japan)
- New Frontier Party (Japan) politicians
- New Komeito politicians
- Politicians from Tokyo
- Japanese politician, 1940s birth stubs