Yoko Komiyama | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare |
Primeminister: | Yoshihiko Noda |
Term Start: | 2 September 2011 |
Term End: | 1 October 2012 |
Predecessor: | Ritsuo Hosokawa |
Successor: | Wakio Mitsui |
Birth Date: | 17 September 1948 |
Birth Place: | Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan |
Alma Mater: | Seijo University |
is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Shibuya, Tokyo and graduate of Seijo University, she worked at the public broadcaster NHK from 1972 to 1998. She was elected to the House of Councilors for the first time in 1998 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in April 2003. In September 2011 she was appointed Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.[1]
Category: