Tomoko Abe

Tomoko Abe (Japanese阿 部 知 子, Abe Tomoko, born April 24, 1948 in Meguro, Tokyo Prefecture) is a Japanese politician, Member of the Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament and deputy chairman of Midori no Kaze ( " Green Wind " ).

Abe attended high school Women's University Ochanomizu and studied at the medical faculty of the University of Tokyo, graduating she made in 1974. Them worked as a pediatrician in different hospitals in the 1990s temporarily at the Mayo Clinic in the U.S., most recently in 1999 in hospitals the Tokushūkai group in Chiba and Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. She is employed there without service after she moved into politics in 2000.

When Shūgiin - election in 2000 was a candidate for the Abe Social Democratic Party ( SDP) in the 12th constituency Kanagawa, although they clearly lost as well as the three subsequent elections behind the candidates of the major parties; but was elected on the proportional representation block south Kanto and part since 2000 continuously on the Shūgiin. After the party escape of Masako Owaki Abe in 2003 her successor as chairman of the Policy Research Council of the SDP.

Before the 2012 election Shūgiin Abe left the SDP in November 2012 to join the newly founded Midori no Kaze ( " Green Wind "). However, this challenged the Shūgiin - election in favor of the future Party of Japan not, and Abe ran for the latter. She could indeed surpass the 12 Democratic incumbent Ikko Nakatsuka in the constituency Kanagawa, but was defeated by Liberal Democrats Tsuyoshi Hoshino; with a relatively narrow constituency defeat, she won the # 1 spot on the list of future party in southern Kantō and won their only mandate proportional representation. When the party split shortly after the convening of the new parliament, Abe was left as the only representative from both chambers in the future party. In January 2013, it took over the party chairmanship of Yukiko Kada. In May 2012, she joined the Midori no Kaze, where he was deputy chairman ( Daihyō - Daiko ).