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Japanese politician (born 1944)
Makiko Tanaka
田中 眞紀子
Official portrait, 2012
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
In office
1 October 2012 – 26 December 2012
Prime MinisterYoshihiko Noda
Preceded byMasaharu Nakagawa
Succeeded byHakubun Shimomura
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan
In office
26 April 2001 – 29 January 2002
Prime MinisterJunichirō Koizumi
Preceded byYōhei Kōno
Succeeded byYoriko Kawaguchi
Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency
In office
30 June 1994 – 8 August 1995
Prime MinisterTomiichi Murayama
Preceded byMikio Ōmi
Succeeded byYasuoki Urano
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
10 November 2003 – 16 November 2012
Preceded byYukio Hoshino
Succeeded byTadayoshi Nagashima
ConstituencyNiigata 5th
In office
18 July 1993 – 9 August 2002
Preceded byMulti-member district
Succeeded byYukio Hoshino
ConstituencyNiigata 3rd (1993–1996)
Niigata 5th (1996–2002)
Personal details
Born (1944-01-14) 14 January 1944 (age 80)
Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan
Political partyIndependent (2003–2009; 2018–present)
Other political
affiliations		LDP (until 2003)
DPJ (2009–2016)
DP (2016–2018)
SpouseNaoki Suzuki
Children3
ParentKakuei Tanaka (father)
Alma materWaseda University (B.Com.)

Makiko Tanaka (田中 眞紀子, Tanaka Makiko, born on 14 January 1944) is a Japanese politician. She is the daughter of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and his official wife Hana.

Early life

Tanaka attended high school at Germantown Friends School in the United States and graduated from Waseda University. She spent most of her early adulthood working with her father's political machine Etsuzankai, and was first lady to her father since her mother, Hana, was absent due to long-standing illness. She was elected to the Lower House in 1993, shortly after her father's death.

Makiko Tanaka (left) visits with the United States Navy dive team engaged in the salvage and recovery operation of Ehime Maru off Oahu, Hawaii on September 9, 2001.

Career

Tanaka was the first female foreign minister of Japan, from April 2001 to January 2002, but was fired from the cabinet after making remarks critical of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Koizumi had also made indirect negative remarks toward Tanaka shortly before her removal as Foreign Minister. Later that year, she was expelled from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and barred from party membership for two years.

In August 2002, Tanaka resigned from the Diet after allegations that she had embezzled her secretaries' civil service salaries. A Tokyo court cleared her in September, and she ran for the Diet again as an independent in November 2003.

Her husband Naoki Suzuki, whom she married in 1969 was adopted as an adult into her family, because she has no brothers to carry on the family name.

In August 2009, Tanaka and her husband joined the opposition Democratic Party of Japan. In September 2009 she became the Diet chairperson of the Committee on Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. In September 2011 she became the Diet chairperson of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. On October 1, 2012, she became Minister of Education, Culture, Science, Sports, and Technology, as part of a reshuffle of the Yoshihiko Noda Cabinet.

On November 2, 2012 she denied applications for three new universities, contradicting a report the previous day that had endorsed the establishment of the universities. It had been 30 years since a minister had contradicted the ministry in such a way. This sparked a large amount of criticism and after pressure from within the DPJ she reversed her decision and approved the applications.

She lost her seat in the December 16, 2012 general election. She left office on 26 December 2012.

Publications

References

  1. "Business & Politics: Tanaka Makiko". Japan Zone. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  2. ""Ex-Japan Foreign Minister Tanaka Joins Top Opposition"". Jiji Press Ticker Service. August 15, 2009.
  3. "Koizumi Critic Quits Party". The New York Times. 2003-10-23. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  4. "LDP Makiko Tanaka signs up with DPJ". CCTV. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  5. "The Democratic Party of Japan : Profile Detail". DPJ. Archived from the original on 24 November 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2009.
  6. "Noda shakes up Cabinet third time". Kyodo News at The Japan Times. 2012-10-02. Archived from the original on 2012-10-03.
  7. Daily Yomiuri "Tanaka denies 3 proposed new universities November 3, 2012
  8. Daily Yomiuri DPJ pressured Tanaka's reversal / Ruling party members wanted education minister to approve universities November 9, 2012
  9. Japan Times Nothing left for the election-gutted DPJ to do but rebuild December 18, 2012

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Political offices
Preceded byMikio Ōmi Minister of state, director-general of the Science and Technology Agency
1994–1995 		Succeeded byYasuoki Urano
Preceded byYōhei Kōno Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan
2001–2002 		Succeeded byYoriko Kawaguchi
Preceded byTakeshi Iwaya Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2009–2011 		Succeeded byEiko Ishige
Preceded byTadamasa Kodaira Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs
2011–2012 		Succeeded byYoshikatsu Nakayama
Preceded byHirofumi Hirano Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2012 		Succeeded byHakubun Shimomura
House of Representatives (Japan)
Preceded byKichinosuke Meguro
Hideo Watanabe
Yukio Hoshino
Shin Sakurai
Tatsuo Murayama 		Member of the House of Representatives
from Niigata 3rd district (multi-member)
1993–1996
Served alongside: Yukio Hoshino, Shin Sakurai, Tomio Sakagami, Tatsuo Murayama 		District eliminated
New district Member of the House of Representatives
from Niigata 5th district (single-member)
1996–2002
2003–2012 		VacantTitle next held byYukio Hoshino
Preceded byYukio Hoshino Succeeded by{{{after}}}
Foreign Ministers of Japan
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