Kiyomi Tsujimoto
Kiyomi Tsujimoto (Japanese辻 元 清 美, Tsujimoto Kiyomi, born April 28, 1960 in OYODO, Nara Prefecture) is a Japanese politician and Member of the Shūgiin, the lower house, the Democratic Party for the proportional representation block Kinki.
Tsujimoto, who was born in Nara but raised in Osaka, attended a high school in the city of Nagoya, and then studied at the Faculty of Education at Waseda University. During her studies she participated in the founding of the Peace Boat (ピース ボート, pīsubōto ), a non-governmental organization ( NGO) committed to international peace, human rights and environmental protection. Even after graduation, she remained active for Peace Boat, 1992, she participated as NGO representative participated in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.
In the 1996 election Shūgiin Tsujimoto joined as a candidate in the proportional representation block Kinki on list # 1, which was founded in the same year the Social Democratic Party (SDP ) and was elected secure. In 2000, she first appeared in the 10th constituency of Osaka, which includes in particular the city of Takatsuki in the north of the prefecture, and was able to Kōmeitō Incumbents Kazu Ishigaki beat just with less than a thousand votes.
In March 2002, has been publicly that Tsujimoto only a fraction of the declared of her expenses - salaries secretary had actually been spent for this purpose - paid by the state. She put in the same month down its mandate in August 2002, the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office opened investigations on fraud, 2003, she was sentenced to probation. 2004 ran unsuccessfully as an Independent Tsujimoto for the Sangiin, the House of Lords: In the prefecture of Osaka ( three seats ) they received 718 125 votes, falling short of the third highest share of the vote by only about 17 thousand votes. In the 2005 election Shūgiin they now came back on for the SDP in the 10th constituency Osaka. Although they defeated Kenta Matsunami (LDP ), but was re-elected by proportional representation Kinki block as best Wahlkreisverliererin of the four candidates on SDP Rank 1.
In 2009, Tsujimoto their constituency, now with the support of the Democratic Party and the New People's Party to regain. In September, a US-led coalition Democrats took over the government, Tsujimoto was Secretary of State ( fuku - daijin, " Deputy Minister " ) of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in the Cabinet Hatoyama. After the row over the whereabouts of a U.S. military base in Okinawa, the SDP, the departure from the coalition decided. Tsujimoto announced on 30 May 2010, her resignation as Secretary of State. In August 2010, she left the SDP, the party decided not to disciplinary action. She joined a little later in the Group of the Democratic Party. When choosing Shūgiin - election in 2012, although she lost her constituency again just to Kenta Matsunami (now Nippon Ishin no Kai ), but reached number three on the Democratic list in Kinki and won again a proportional representation mandate.