Chikage Oogi

Chikage Ogi (Japanese扇 千 景, Chikage Ogi, born May 10, 1933 Kobe as Hiroko Kimura (木村 寛 子, Hiroko Kimura ) ), actually: Hiroko Hayashi (林 寛 子, Hayashi Hiroko ), is a Japanese politician of the LDP.

Ogi joined in April 1954, the Takarazuka Revue on. In 1958 she married the Kabuki actor Kotaro Hayashi - later than Tojuro Sakata known - and left the Takarazuka Revue. After that, they played mainly in television series ( drama ).

From 2000 to 2001 Ogi was traffic and Bauministerin and, from 2001, with the summary of each Ministry, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. After that, she became the first woman to head the House of Lords. She stayed until July 2007 President of the second chamber when her party lost the majority of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan. They had announced back in May after 30 years as a Member to withdraw from politics.