Yukiko Kada

Yukiko Kada (Japanese嘉 田 由 纪 子, Kada Yukiko, born May 18, 1950 in Honjō, Saitama Prefecture) since 2006, non-party governor of the Japanese prefecture of Shiga.

Kada is a graduate of the Faculty of Agriculture Kyoto University. During her studies she lived in 1972 for half a year in Tanzania. After graduating in 1973, she continued her studies at the University of Wisconsin. They then remained in the research, first at the Lake Biwa Research Institute and later at the Kyoto Seika University, where she was Professor of Environmental Sociology since 2000.

In 2006, she left the university to compete for election to the governorship in Shiga. On their exposure during the campaign included, among other things, the building freeze for new Shinkansen stations, dams and a landfill site in Shiga. Her candidacy was supported by the Social Democratic Party ( SDP). In the election on July 2, 2006, she sat down with 217 842 votes against the incumbent Yoshitsugu Kunimatsu ( 185 344 votes) by which was supported by the LDP, the DPJ and the Kōmeitō. She is the first female Governor of Shiga Prefecture. In the 2010 election she was re-elected with the support of the DPJ and SDP with 63 % of votes.

In November 2012 Kada founded the Nippon Mirai no Tō ( "Future Party of Japan " ), going for a nuclear phase-out, a reduction in the discrimination of women in the Japanese world of work and better conditions for families with children for the 2012 Shūgiin choice. Ichirō Ozawa Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi wants to disband and join the new party.