Akiko Kamei

Akiko Kamei (Japanese亀 井 亜 纪 子, Kamei Akiko, born May 14, 1965 in the prefecture of Tokyo ) is a Japanese politician. From 2007 to 2013, it was one of the two representatives of the Shimane Prefecture in Sangiin, the upper house of the national parliament.

Kamei, the daughter of Hisaoki Kamei ( People's New Party) and thus a descendant of the former Graf family Kamei, graduated from the law faculty of the Gakushuin Daigaku and the Carleton College. She worked on her return to Japan as an English translator and later as deputies her father's secretary. In the 2007 election Sangiin they ran for the party her father with DPJ SDP support in Shimane (one mandate each selection), could the LDP incumbent Shuntaro Kageyama exceed by about 30 thousand votes and moved into Sangiin. There she was also a member in accounting and the Agriculture Committee; in the New People's Party, she was Secretary General of the Sangiin Group, and from 2010 to 2012 chairman of the Policy Research Council.

In 2012 she left the New People's Party and participated in the founding of Midori no Kaze, where they initially one of the four co-chairs, from January 2013 Secretary General was. In 2013 Sangiin election she lost her seat to the Liberal Democrats Saburō Shimada.