Kyoko Nakayama

Kyoko Nakayama (中山 恭子, Nakayama Kyōko, born 26 January 1940) is a Japanese politician and a former leader of the Party for Japanese Kokoro. In the past she has been a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Sunrise Party of Japan and Japan Restoration Party and is serving her second term as a member of the House of Councillors (Upper House) in the Diet (national legislature). She was Special Advisor to the Prime Minister (naikaku sōri-daijin hosakan) for the North Korean abduction issue under Junichiro Koizumi, beginning in 2002. She left the post in 2004 but was reappointed by Shinzō Abe in 2006. She was appointed by Yasuo Fukuda as State Minister in charge of the Population and Gender Equality Issues on August 1, 2008.[1][2]

Kyoko Nakayama
中山 恭子
Leader of the Party for Japanese Kokoro
In office
1 October 2015 – 22 September 2017
Preceded byShintarō Ishihara
Succeeded byMasashi Nakano
Member of the House of Councillors
In office
July 29, 2007 – July 21, 2019
ConstituencyNational PR
Personal details
Born (1940-01-26) 26 January 1940
Political partyParty of Hope
Other political
affiliations		Party for Japanese Kokoro (2014-2017)
LDP (until 2010)
Spouse(s)Nariaki Nakayama

A graduate of the University of Tokyo (with a major in French literature), she worked at the Ministry of Finance from 1966 until 1999, when she was appointed as ambassador of Japan to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.[3] She was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2007, and again in 2013.[3] During her campaign, she pledged to resolve the abduction issue. Her husband, Nariaki Nakayama, is a former transport minister and was also a diet member.[2]

She and her husband left the LDP and joined the Sunrise Party of Japan on June 21, 2010. Along with other members of that party she moved to Shintaro Ishihara's short lived Sunrise Party, and with the merger of that party with the Japan Restoration Party she became a member of that party.[4] When Shintaro Ishihara's group left that party to form the Party for Future Generations she and her husband went too. Her husband lost his seat at the 2014 general election, but she remains in the diet.[5] In October 2015 she became leader of the Party for Future Generations and in December of that year led the party in changing its name to the Party for Japanese Kokoro.

Notes
  1. "Fukuda overhauls Cabinet / LDP executive shakeup also elevates Aso to party No. 2", The Yomiuri Shimbun, August 2, 2008.
  2. The Japan Times, "Fukuda's new lineup", August 3, 2008.
  3. House of Councillors Ms. Nakayama Kyoko Archived 2019-07-22 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved March 25, 2015
  4. Asahi Shimbun website Interpretations of Japan's wartime history causing rift in ruling LDP May 14, 2013 Archived July 24, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Party for Future Generations Officer List Archived 2015-03-31 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved March 25, 2015

References
  • 政治家情報 〜中山 恭子〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2007-11-20. External link in |work= (help)
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