Yūko Nakagawa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Japanese politician
Date of Birth: 22-Dec-1958
Place of Birth: Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Profession: politician
Nationality: Japan
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
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About Yūko Nakagawa
- Yuko Nakagawa (????, Nakagawa Yuko, née Iwata, born 22 December 1958) is a Japanese politician in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
- She represented Hokkaido in the House of Representatives from 2012 to 2017.
- Her husband, Shoichi Nakagawa, was also a politician, serving as Minister of Finance of Japan in 2008 and 2009.
- Nakagawa was born in Niigata Prefecture and graduated from University of the Sacred Heart in 1981.
- She worked at Mitsubishi for a year until her marriage to Shoichi, and moved to Hokkaido shortly afterward.After Shoichi's death in 2009, Yuko began to get involved in politics.
- In the 2012 election, she ran in Hokkaido's 11th district against Tomohiro Ishikawa, who had defeated her husband for the position in the last election; she won with 51 percent of the vote.
- During her time in the House, she served on the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Committee, and was appointed as parliamentary minister of the committee in 2014.
- In her role as minister, she spoke out in opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.After being re-elected in the 2014 election, Nakagawa came under controversy in March 2015, when a photograph was released where she was kissing fellow politician Hirofumi Kado; Nakagawa later apologized for the incident, and LDP President Shinzo Abe offered his continued support after the leak.
- She was challenged by Kaori Ishikawa, Tomohiro's wife, in the 2017 election.
- She lost, 54.5 to 45.5 percent, and the kiss with Kado was considered by the media to be the primary reason why she was defeated.
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