Kuniko Inoguchi

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She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 1982. She also received an M.A. from Yale University in 1977 and a B.A. from Sophia University in 1975.

She taught first as Associate Professor, then Professor, in the Faculty of Law at Sophia University, Tokyo, from 1981 to 2002. During this period, she was also a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs under the Fulbright Program. She was selected in 1993 among 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.

She was asked by the government to serve on a number of councils, including the Prime Minister's Defence Policy Review Council, the Prime Minister's Administrative Reform Council, and the Prime Minister's Gender Equity Council. She was also a member of the Special Committee on the ITER Project. She served as an executive member of both the Japan Association for International Relations and the Japan Association of Gaming and Simulation, among others. In addition, she has served as a lecturer at civil service training institutions and a commentator on foreign policy and international affairs for newspapers and television. But it is known that her political slant is close to the Social Democratic Party, not to the Liberal Democratic Party, and she strongly opposed strengthening the Japan Self-Defense Forces at the Prime Minister's Administrative Reform Council.

Her publications include War and Peace (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1989, in Japanese), which earned her the Yoshino Sakuzo Prize, An Emerging Post-Hegemonic System: Choices for Japan (Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1987, in Japanese), Invitation to Political Science (co-authored, Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1989, in Japanese) and academic articles published in various journals.

Political career

Inokuchi was elected to the House of Representatives as a representative of the Tokyo proportional representation block in the September 2005 general election. She entered the Liberal Democratic Party candidate list at the urging of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, and was one of the best-known of the many "Koizumi Children" that entered the Diet as a result of the 2005 election.

In a surprise move on 31 October 2005, she was appointed Minister of State for Gender Equality and Social Affairs, and was placed in charge of policies associated with equal opportunities and social justice including gender equality, youth affairs, and consumer protection. She advocated providing additional financial support to families with small children, promoting equal employment policies, and promoting a change in the traditional view that women are to take primary responsibility for child care and housekeeping.

Inoguchi declined to run in the 2009 general election after the LDP offered her a lower position on the proportional representation ballot. She returned to the Diet following the 2010 House of Councillors election, in which she won a seat as an LDP candidate representing Chiba Prefecture. She held her seat in the 2016 House of Councillors election. During the campaign, Junichi Ishii, a more senior member of the House representing Chiba, publicly called Inoguchi a liar when she said she was living in the city of Ichikawa, claiming that she spent most of her time over the past six years living in Bunkyo, Tokyo, outside the prefecture.

As of 2017, she serves as director of the House's Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense and as a member of its Committee on Oversight of Administration, Special Committee on Okinawa and Northern Problems, and Board of Oversight and Review of Specially Designated Secrets.

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