Yoriko Kawaguchi

Yoriko Kawaguchi (Japanese川口 顺子, Yoriko Kawaguchi, born January 14, 1941 in Tōkyō ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP without faction ) and former Minister. She was from 2005 to 2013 Member of the Sangiin, the Japanese Upper House.

Biography

Kawaguchi studied international relations at the University of Tokyo. After her graduation (BA ) in 1965, she was a civil servant in the MITI. In 1972, she earned a Masters in Economics at Yale University. From 1976 to 1990 she worked at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. She then returned for several months to the MITI before it was sent to the Japanese Embassy in the United States as a minister ( taishikan Koshi ). In 1992, she came as Deputy Director General ( Kambo shingikan ) for global environmental issues back again to the MITI. A year later she left the ministry and was finally Board at beverage company Suntory.

Prime Minister Mori Yoshirō called Kawaguchi 2001 as head of the Environmental Protection Agency in his second cabinet. Under her leadership, the Authority was converted in the restructuring of central government in January 2001 in a Ministry. Jun'ichirô Koizumi they first took over as environment minister in his cabinet and named her after the dismissal of Makiko Tanaka beginning of 2002, Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 2004, she was replaced by Nobutaka Machimura, Kawaguchi was Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs. In autumn 2005, she gave up her post and was in the by-election in Kanagawa Prefecture for the retired Sangiin deputies Tsuyoshi Saitō elected in 2005 with about 400,000 votes ahead of the DPJ candidate Hiroe Akiyama. In the 2007 election Sangiin Kawaguchi was re-elected with 261 404 preference votes and thus 5th place on the LDP list on the national proportional representation. In 2012 she took over the Presidency of the Sangiin Environment Committee. In May 2013, the opposition majority in Sangiin adopted a resolution to their dismissal, after a prolonged visit to China without consultation with Parliament and a scheduled committee meeting missed.

To Sangiin - election in 2013 she announced her retirement from politics and did not run for re-election.