Yoko Komiyama

Yoko Komiyama
小宮山 洋子
Official portrait, 2010
Minister of State for Measures for Declining Birthrate
In office 23 April 2012 – 1 October 2012
Prime Minister	Yoshihiko Noda
Preceded by	Masaharu Nakagawa
Succeeded by	Ikko Nakatsuka
Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare
In office 2 September 2011 – 1 October 2012
Prime Minister	Yoshihiko Noda
Preceded by	Ritsuo Hosokawa
Succeeded by	Wakio Mitsui
Member of the House of Representatives
In office April 2003 – 16 November 2012
Preceded by	Kōki Ishii
Succeeded by	Takao Ochi
Constituency	Tokyo 6th (2003–2005, 2009–2012) Tokyo PR (2005–2009)
Member of the House of Councillors
In office 26 July 1998 – 15 April 2003
Constituency	National PR
Personal details
Born	(1948-09-17) 17 September 1948 (age 76) Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Democratic
Alma mater	Seijo University

Yoko Komiyama (小宮山 洋子, Komiyama Yōko, born September 17, 1948) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Shibuya, Tokyo and graduate of Seijo University, she worked at the public broadcaster NHK from 1972 to 1998. She was elected to the House of Councilors for the first time in 1998 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in April 2003. In September 2011 she was appointed Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.^[1]

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