Eriko Fukuda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Japanese politician
Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1980
Place of Birth: Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Profession: politician
Nationality: Japan
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
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About Eriko Fukuda
- Eriko Fukuda (?????, Fukuda Eriko, born 30 October 1980) is a former Japanese politician who served as a Member of the House of Representatives in the Nagasaki 2nd district from 31 August 2009 to 16 December 2012.
- Born in Nagasaki, Fukuda originally attended Hiroshima Shudo University to study psychology, but left after a year to travel Europe.
- After returning to school in 2001, she discovered that she was infected with Hepatitis C, and dropped out of school to seek treatment.Fukuda discovered that she was given a blood-clotting agent while still a baby in 1980, which had infected her with the virus along with many others from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
- In 2004, she became a party to litigation against the government, and became a face of the lawsuit as one of the few people to announce her real name.
- In 2007, the Diet enacted a law providing compensation to those that were affected.
- By then, Fukuda had "become a poster child for the battle against all things wrong with the government and bureaucracy."A year later, Fukuda was handpicked by Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) party leader Ichiro Ozawa in a party attempt to appeal to voters who were tired of longtime Liberal Democratic Party rule.
- She won the election against Fumio Kyuma, who had represented Nagasaki in the House of Representatives for 30 years, 50.4% to 44.3%.
- Shortly before the 2012 elections, Fukuda jumped from the DPJ to the Tomorrow Party of Japan, then to the Green Wind party.
- After losing her seat in the election, she retired from politics to start a family with her husband, whom she married six months prior.
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