Kyoko Nakayama
Kyoko Nakayama (Japanese中山 恭子, Kyoko Nakayama; born 26 January 1940 in the prefecture of Tokyo ) is a Japanese politician of the Nippon Ishin no Kai and members of the Sangiin, the House of Lords, in which she was elected to national proportional representation block.
Life and career
Nakayama studied French language and literature at the University of Tokyo, where she graduated in 1963 (BA ) made . In 1964, she was a civil servant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and two years later she moved to the Ministry of Finance. From 1975 to 1978 she worked at the International Monetary Fund. In 1993 she left the Ministry of Finance and was for six years Vice President of the Japan Foundation, which strives for international cultural exchange on behalf of the government. She was appointed ambassador to Uzbekistan in 1999.
2002 Nakayama returned to Japan and worked in the Cabinet secretariat for two years as a consultant for the abduction issue, in September 2006, she was then Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for the abduction issue. In the 2007 election Sangiin she applied successfully for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ) via the proportional representation block for a mandate. In the LDP, she joined the Machimura faction. In August 2008, appointed Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda Nakayama as successor of Yōko Kamikawa as Minister of State for combating the falling birth rate and for gender equality; In addition, she received the responsibility for the abduction issue, which had been located at the Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Cabinet. In September 2008, it replaced Fukuda's successor by Yuko Obuchi Taro Aso, but appointed them back to the Special Adviser.
In June 2010, Nakayama stepped out of the LDP, and together with her husband at the Tachiagare Nippon, which merged in the Taiyo no Tō, the Nippon Ishin no Kai in 2012. For this she joined the 2013 Sangiin - election again in the proportional representation segment of received 306 341 votes, thus achieving Rank 2, which meant a total of secure re-election in six proportional representation seats.
Nakayama's husband, Nariaki Nakayama, is a member of the Shūgiin ( Ishin ) and was on the 2nd and 3rd reshuffled Cabinet Koizumi Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and a few days cabinet ministers Asō.