Masako Mori (politician)

Masako Mori (Japanese森 まさこ, Masako Mori, actually Masako Miyoshi (三好 雅子), born August 22, 1964 in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( Machimura faction ), Member of the Sangiin for Fukushima and since 2012 Minister in the Cabinet Shinzō Abe II, the Cabinet Office is responsible for matters concerning birth rate, gender equality, consumer protection and food safety.

Mori graduated from the Law School of Tohoku University in 1992 and laid the bar exam from. In 1995, she was registered with the Tokyo Bar Association. In 1999, she went for a postgraduate course at the University of New York. Upon her return, she worked from 2005 to the Authority for the financial sector, which in 2006 she again left to go into politics: In the gubernatorial election in Fukushima in 2006 ran Mori, with the support of the LDP and Kōmeitō to succeed the resigned under allegations of corruption Eisaku Satō, but lost by just over 100,000 votes the DPJ -supported Yuhei Satō.

In 2007 Sangiin - choice (two mandate constituency even then) retired to the Fukushima LDP MPs Ōta Toyoaki after three terms in office returns, and Mori was a candidate for the LDP. With indeed significant backlog of more than 130,000 votes to Democrat Emi Kaneko, but safe lead on the two candidates of the left parties they moved into Sangiin. 2012 she became chairman of the Committee on Administrative Supervision ( Gyosei Kanshi ). In the LDP in 2009, she was Chairman of the Legal Committee, 2010 Vice Secretary General.

In December 2012, appointed Prime Minister Abe Shinzō Mori Minister of State for combating the falling birth rate and for gender equality and the protection of consumers in his second cabinet. In the 2013 election Sangiin she sat down in Fukushima ( henceforth Einmandatswahlkreis ) with 56.6 % of the vote against the previous sovereign Mitamtsinhaberin Emi Kaneko (DPJ ), which received 28.2% of votes, and four other candidates for re-election by.