Profile of Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshiko ABE

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Toshiko ABE
Liberal Democratic Party of Japan
Member of the House of Representatives
Proportional Representation Block for Chugoku (elected three times)

Japanese

Biography

Date Curriculum Vitae
May 19, 1959 Born in Miyagi Prefecture
1997 Completed doctoral course in Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago (Ph.D.)
1997-2003 Lecturer, Gunma University
Lecturer and Assistant Professor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
2003 Vice President of the Japanese Nursing Association
2005 Elected to the House of Representatives for the first time (44th General Election) (Okayama Prefecture, 3rd Electoral District, Proportional Representation Block for Chugoku)
December 2012 Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs (2nd Abe Cabinet)

Hobbies

Reading, traveling, watching movies, listening to music, and hiking


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