| Mitsu Kōro | |
|---|---|
| Deputy Secretary of State for Health and Welfare | |
| In office 1955 | |
| Member of the House of Councillors | |
| In office 1947–1968 | |
| Constituency | Tokushima |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 1946–1947 | |
| Constituency | Tokushima |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 May 1893 Sakamoto, Japan |
| Died | 20 December 1980(1980-12-20) (aged 87) |
Mitsu Kōro (Japanese: 紅露みつ; 10 May 1893 – 28 December 1980) was a Japanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946. Aside from a brief spell in 1947, she served continuously in parliament until 1968.
Biography
Kōro was born in Sakamoto in Gunma Prefecture in 1893. She attended Kanda Girl's High School in Tokyo, after which she married Akira Kōro [ja], who was elected to parliament in 1932. She worked as a journalist. Their son Shinichi was stationed in Hiroshima towards the end of World War II and was killed by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
After World War II, Akira was banned from holding public office. Instead, Kōro contested the 1946 general elections as an independent candidate in Tokushima, and was elected to the House of Representatives. She subsequently joined the Liberal Party. Although she lost her seat in the April 1947 general election, she returned to parliament after winning a seat in the August 1947 House of Councillors by-elections.
Kōro was subsequently re-elected in 1950 as a National Democratic Party candidate, and in 1956 and 1962 as a Liberal Democratic Party candidate, serving until 1968. She also served as Deputy Secretary of State for Health and Welfare in the second Ichiro Hatoyama cabinet in 1955. In 1965 she was awarded the Order of the Precious Crown.
She died in 1980.
References
- Otsuka Kiyoe (2008) Japanese Women's Legislative and Administrative Reforms in the Postwar Era Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University
- ^ Analysis of the 1946 Japanese General Election United States Department of State, 1946, p53
- 1893 births
- Politicians from Gunma Prefecture
- Japanese journalists
- 20th-century Japanese women politicians
- 20th-century Japanese politicians
- Members of the House of Representatives (Japan)
- Democratic Party (Japan, 1947) politicians
- Members of the House of Councillors (Japan)
- National Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
- Kaishintō politicians
- Democratic Party (Japan, 1954) politicians
- Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
- Order of the Precious Crown members
- 1980 deaths