Mizuho Fukushima, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Japanese politician
Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1955
Place of Birth: Nobeoka, Japan
Profession: lawyer, politician
Nationality: Japan
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
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About Mizuho Fukushima
- Mizuho Fukushima (?? ??, Fukushima Mizuho, born 24 December 1955) is a Japanese politician.
- A native of Nobeoka, Miyazaki, she has been a member of the House of Councillors since 1998, was re-elected in 2004 and 2010, and was the head of the Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDP), from 2003 to 2013.After graduating from the University of Tokyo with the B.L.
- degree, she became a lawyer in 1987.
- She is the deputy head of the SDP, vice-chairperson of the Socialist International (SI), the Visiting Professor of Gakushuin Women's College. Fukushima was also Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety, Social Affairs, and Gender Equality in Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's cabinet (16 September 2009 – 28 May 2010); the SDP was the junior partner in the DPJ-led government coalition.
- However, in May 2010 disagreements over the issue of the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma led to the sacking of Fukushima from the cabinet on Friday May 28, and the SDP subsequently voted to leave the ruling coalition.Fukushima participated in a survey on Jeju Island in South Korea with Kenichi Takagi and others, aiming for a lawsuit against the Japanese government based on the fictional story of Seiji Yoshida.
- Although no evidence of forced sex slavery was found at all, it was said that she contributed to forging that there was.
- Takashi Uemura, a reporter from the Asahi Shimbun, was involved in this forgery.
- The original testimony by ex-prostitute Kim Hak-Sun ??? published in the Korean newspaper The Hankyoreh was "I was sold to a Kiesen Kenban (?? ?? a comfort station) in Pyongyang at the age of 14 by a mother who had difficulty living.
- Ms.
- Kim, who finished her three-year inspection career, thought it was her first job and was taken by her father-in-law in front of a unit with over 300 Japanese troops in North China" .
- Uemura forged this testimony to "I was taken to the battlefield under the name of a women's slimmer corps and forced to prostitute Japanese soldiers".
- Later, the Asahi Shimbun issued a correction article stating, "There is no fact that this woman was taken to the battlefield under the name of a corps." Fukushima's Social Democratic Party has an anti-nuclear platform, and she has been referred to as a prominent anti-nuclear activist.
- For three decades, she was at the forefront of an often futile fight against the utilities that operated Japan's nuclear reactors, the corporations that built them and the bureaucrats who enabled them.
- That situation changed with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011.She has opposed capital punishment on the SDP website.After a disappointing result in the 2013 election for the House of Councillors she announced her resignation as head of the party.
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