Haruko Arimura

Haruko Arimura
Haruko Arimura
有村治子
	Official portrait
Minister of State for Government Revitalization
	In office; 3 August 2014 – 7 October 2015
Prime Minister	Shinzo Abe
Preceded by	Tomomi Inada
Succeeded by	Taro Kono
Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety
	In office; 3 August 2014 – 24 December 2014
Preceded by	Masako Mori
Succeeded by	Shunichi Yamaguchi
Member of the House of Councillors; for Proportional District
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 29 July 2001
Personal details
Born	Haruko Arimura; 21 September 1970 (age 53); Ishikawa, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Children	2
Parent	Kunihiro Arimura (有村國宏)
Relatives	Kaieda Nobuyoshi (grand grand gramd uncle)
Education	Omi Brotherhood High
Alma mater	International Christian University (BA); School for International Training (MA); Aoyama Gakuin University (PhD Candidate);

Haruko Arimura (有村治子, Arimura Haruko, born 21 September 1970) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. She is a descendant of Arimura Tsugizaemon, the ringleader of the Sakuradamon Incident, and Togo Heihachiro, the admiral of the Russo-Japanese War.

Early life and education[edit]

Haruko Arimura was born in Ishikawa Prefecture and grew up in Shiga Prefecture. Her father, Kunihiro (國宏) is a politician and descended from samurai of the Satsuma clan, Her grand grand father, Kunihiko (國彦) was a banker. Her uncle, Kunitaka Arimura (有村國孝) is the inventor of Integrated Circuit Card. Her brothers, Kunitoshi (國俊) and Kunitomo (國知) Arimura are also politicians. Arimura family's Tūji (通字), the distinctive kanji used in the names of all men belonging to a Arimura family, is Kuni (國).

After graduating from Omi Brotherhood High School (近江兄弟社高等学校), she got a B.A. in social science from International Christian University (ICU) in Mitaka, Tokyo and received a M.A. in Conflict Transformation from School for International Training (SIT) in Vermont, United States.

He joined McDonald's Japan as a manager in 1997.

Political career[edit]

Arimura was elected for the first time in 2001. Having been elected to the House of Councillors, Arimura stopped the Ph.D. in international business programme at Aoyama Gakuin University.^{[citation needed]}

On 3 September 2014, she was appointed by the Abe Cabinet as Minister of State for Regulatory Reform, Minister of State for Measures to Combat Declining Birthrates, Minister of State for Gender Equality and Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety in the Cabinet Office. Arimura led the public relations department of the LDP during Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's term, and was replaced on 4 October 2021 by Taro Kono at the start of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's term.^{[citation needed]}

She is affiliated to Nippon Kaigi.^[1]

Personal life[edit]

She is married to a Hakka-Chinese Malaysian man and has two children with her husband.^{[citation needed]}

References[edit]

Inline citations[edit]

^ "Abe's reshuffle promotes right-wingers" - Korea Joongang Daily - 2014/09/05

Sources referenced[edit]

政治家情報〜有村治子〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2007-12-08. Retrieved 2007-10-24.

External links[edit]

Official website in Japanese.

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[1] "Abe's reshuffle promotes right-wingers" - Korea Joongang Daily - 2014/09/05

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