12 Facts About Tomoko Abe

Tomoko Abe is a Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives.

Tomoko Abe is currently a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party.

Tomoko Abe was formerly the policy chief of the centre-left Social Democratic Party, and later the president and sole member of the short-lived Tomorrow Party of Japan.

Tomoko Abe has been elected to Kanagawa 12th District constituency eight times.

Tomoko Abe worked as a pediatrician in various hospitals, including at the Mayo Clinic in the US in the 1990s.

Tomoko Abe worked for the Tokushukai Group in Chiba and Kamakura.

Tomoko Abe has continued to be employed by the group, but does not actively work after her switch to politics in 2000.

The party performed poorly in the election and all the remaining diet members save Tomoko Abe quit the party, meaning that the TPJ could not maintain official party status in the diet, which requires five members.

However, they did not contest the Shugiin election in favor of the Tomorrow Party of Japan, and Tomoko Abe ran for them instead.

Tomoko Abe was defeated by less than 1000 votes behind Tsuyoshi Hoshino, but achieved the number 1 on the list of Democrats in the proportional electoral block South Kanto and was surely elected.

Tomoko Abe is a leader of a group of lawmakers called Energy Shift Japan, who are pushing the government to consider alternatives to nuclear power subsequent to the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in March 2011.

Tomoko Abe instead proposed alternative means of storing irradiated water.