Eriko Yamatani

Eriko Yamatani (Japanese山谷 えり子Yamatani Eriko, born September 19, 1950 in Musashino, Tokyo Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) and from 2006 to 2008 Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for education reform. Since 2004 she is a Member of the Sangiin, within the LDP it belongs to Machimura faction.

Yamatani studied psychology at the Seishin Women's University (University of the Sacred Heart ). After graduating in 1973, she was like her father, a journalist for the Sankei Shimbun and the associated television stations. In the 1989 election Sangiin she was a candidate on the list of Democratic- Socialist Party, but was not elected.

At the 2000 election Shūgiin Yamatani was voted for the Democratic Party for the proportional representation block Tōkai. Together with Hiroshi Kumagai she left the Democrats in 2002 and participated in the founding of the New Conservative Party, which joined the LDP in 2003. In 2004 Sangiin - election, she was elected on the proportional representation as LDP candidate. In November 2005, State Secretary at the Cabinet Office Yamatani. Prime Minister Abe Shinzō appointed her in office in 2006 for the Special Adviser on education reform, his successor, Yasuo Fukuda It left at this position, which she held until Fukuda's resignation in August 2008.