Chieko Nōno, Date of Birth

    

Chieko Nōno

Japanese politician

Date of Birth: 14-Nov-1935

Profession: politician, midwife, nurse

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Chieko Nōno

  • Chieko Nohno (?? ???, Nono Chieko, born November 14, 1935) is a Japanese politician.
  • In some English-language Japanese newspapers her family name is romanized as Noono. She was born in Qiqihar, Manchuria in 1935 and moved to Kagoshima at the end of World War II.
  • She graduated from Kagoshima Konan High School in 1954 and attended the School of Midwifery attached to the Medical Department of Osaka University.
  • Nohno worked as a nurse for more than thirty years before beginning her political career. She was first elected to the House of Councillors in 1992, and was reelected in 1998 and 2004.
  • In 2001 she served as the Vice Minister for Labor for half a year.
  • Prime Minister Koizumi appointed her Minister of Justice on 27 September 2004.
  • Her selection was somewhat controversial.
  • Her background is in medicine, with no formal legal training.
  • She is only the second woman to serve in the position.
  • The first was Tachiko Nagao, who served for ten months in 1996. Nohno has spoken in favor of immigration and assimilation of immigrants into Japanese society.

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