Yōko Kamikawa
上川 陽子
Official portrait, 2023
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Assumed office
13 September 2023
Prime MinisterFumio Kishida
Preceded byYoshimasa Hayashi
Minister of Justice
In office
16 September 2020 – 4 October 2021
Prime MinisterYoshihide Suga
Preceded byMasako Mori
Succeeded byYoshihisa Furukawa
In office
3 August 2017 – 2 October 2018
Prime MinisterShinzō Abe
Preceded byKatsutoshi Kaneda
Succeeded byTakashi Yamashita
In office
20 October 2014 – 7 October 2015
Prime MinisterShinzō Abe
Preceded byMidori Matsushima
Succeeded byMitsuhide Iwaki
Member of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
18 December 2012
ConstituencyShizuoka 1st district
In office
25 June 2000 – 21 July 2009
ConstituencyTōkai PR block
(2003-2005)
Shizuoka 1st district
(2000-2003, 2005-2009)
Personal details
Born (1953-03-01) 1 March 1953
Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic Party
EducationUniversity of Tokyo (BA)
Harvard University (MPA)
WebsiteOfficial website

Yōko Kamikawa (上川 陽子, Kamikawa Yōko, 1 March 1953), is a Japanese politician and former think tank researcher who has served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs since September 2023. She served as the Minister of Justice from September 2020 to October 2021, and also served as Minister of State for Gender Equality and Social Affairs in the cabinets of Shinzō Abe and Yasuo Fukuda. She has been a member of the House of Representatives since December 2012.

Born in the city of Shizuoka in Shizuoka Prefecture, she graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1977. In 1988 she received a master's degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in June 2000.

During her time in office, Kamikawa has ordered 16 executions, 13 of those executed being former members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, whose acts of domestic terrorism included the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Japanese justice minister's 16 execution orders the most since end of death penalty moratorium in 1993". July 26, 2018.
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