Eriko Yamatani

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Eriko Yamatani
山谷 えり子
House of Councillors
Assumed office
July 2004
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
June 2000 – November 2003
Personal details
Born (1950-09-19) 19 September 1950 (age 73)
Musashino, Tokyo, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic Party
Alma materUniversity of the Sacred Heart
OccupationPolitician

Eriko Yamatani (山谷 えり子, Yamatani Eriko, born September 19, 1950) is a Japanese politician. Her name in official documents is Eriko Ogawa (小川恵里子, Ogawa Eriko).[1]

Life and career

Born in

Catholic university in Tokyo) with the Bachelor of Letters degree in March 1973. She worked in the United States for a publishing company
. She became the editor-in-chief of Sankei Living Shimbun in 1985 and became known as an essayist and television personality.

In 1989 Yamatani ran for a seat in the

House of Councillors as a Democratic Socialist Party
candidate, but was defeated.

In June 2000, she was elected to the

Democratic Party ticket as a proportional representative. She left the party in 2002 to join the New Conservative Party.[2] Though she had planned to run for the seat representing the Tokyo 3rd district in 2003, the emergence of Hirotaka Ishihara, son of Governor Shintaro Ishihara, forced her to run from the 4th district, where she was defeated. She then returned to the Diet as a proportional representative of the Liberal Democratic Party
in 2004.

Yamatani is a vocal opponent of "gender-free education" and of sex education in home economics textbooks and other parts of the school curriculum.

Affiliated to the openly revisionist organization Nippon Kaigi,[3] she is also a supporter of Japan's territorial claims and has called for special legislation to restrict land sales to foreigners on Tsushima Island and to implement measures to boost its local economy without having to depend heavily on South Korean tourists. Koreans own about 0.007 percent of the land on Tsushima.[4]

Yamatani has also made anti-LGBT statements, ridiculing the rights of transgender persons from using the bathroom of their chosen gender and lamenting situations where transgender athletes are stealing medals from cisgender athletes.[5]

References

  1. House of Councillors
    official website. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
  2. ^ The Japan Times Kumagai to form 'new party' with NCP and DPJ defectors December 25 2002 Retrieved on August 7, 2012
  3. ^ "Abe’s reshuffle promotes right-wingers" - Korea Joongang Daily - 2014/09/05
  4. Japan Times
    , March 5, 2010, p. 3.
  5. ^ A series of discriminatory remarks at the Liberal Democratic Assembly over the LGBT bill(in Japanese), Mainichi Shimbun, May 21, 2021

External links

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