10 Facts About Yoriko Kawaguchi

Yoriko Kawaguchi was a member of the House of Councillors for the Liberal Democratic Party from 2005 to 2013.

Yoriko Kawaguchi worked as a Director General of Global Environmental Affairs at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry between 1992 and 1993 before becoming a Managing Director of Suntory Holdings Ltd.

In 2000, Yoriko Kawaguchi was the director-general of the Environment Agency.

Yoriko Kawaguchi was elected to the House of Councillors in 2005, serving two terms through 2013.

Yoriko Kawaguchi became the director and chair of the Environment Committee, director of the Budget Committee and director of the Commission on the Constitution.

Yoriko Kawaguchi served as chair of the LDP Okinawa Promotion Committee as well as co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament and a board member of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders Foundation in 2008.

Yoriko Kawaguchi apologizes to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is the head of the LDP, of her unannounced leave but reasons that the last-minute arrangements with Yang was for Japan's best interests.

However, on May 9,2013, the resolution of ousting Yoriko Kawaguchi was passed despite the attempts of administration officials to defend her intentions.

Yoriko Kawaguchi received a Certificate of Doctor Honoris Causa by the authority of the Academic Council of the National University of Mongolia in September 2004.

In October 2008, Yoriko Kawaguchi received a Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale University for distinguished public service.