Yoshiko Tōma

Yoshiko Tōma (当摩 好子, Tōma Yoshiko, born 1949) is a Japanese politician from Ōmuta, Fukuoka.

Having graduated from Keio University, Tōma was elected to the city assembly of Tokorozawa in 1979. She ran unsuccessfully for the Tokorozawa mayoral election in 1991 and for the national lower house election in 1996 before she won the election for the prefectural assembly of Saitama in 1999. Elected as mayor of Tokorozawa in October 2007, Tōma became the first woman to hold that post.

References
  • "政治家情報 ～当麻 よし子～". ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on June 5, 2008. Retrieved 1 May 2009.
Preceded by
Hiroshi Saitō		 Mayor of Tokorozawa, Saitama
October 2007–present		 Incumbent


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