Toshiko Abe

Toshiko Abe
阿部 俊子
Official portrait, 2020
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 October 2024
Prime Minister	Shigeru Ishiba
Preceded by	Masahito Moriyama
Member of the House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 September 2005
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Constituency	Chugoku PR (2005–2017; 2021–present) Okayama 3rd (2017–2021)
Personal details
Born	(1959-05-19) 19 May 1959 Ishinomaki, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Alma mater	Miyagi Gakuin Women's Junior College Mitsui Memorial Hospital Nursing School University of Alabama at Birmingham University of Illinois at Chicago (PhD)

Toshiko Abe (阿部 俊子, Abe Toshiko; born 19 May 1959) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet, since 2005.

Early life

A native of Miyagi Prefecture, Abe attended Miyagi Gakuin Women's Junior College and Mitsui Memorial Hospital Nursing School; University of Alabama at Birmingham, and University of Illinois at Chicago for her Doctorate (PhD.) in the United States.

Political career

Abe was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in September 2005.

She was one of the incoming group of representatives referred to as the Koizumi Children.

Family

She currently resides in her home prefecture in Japan, and she is divorced from Bloomberg media professional, J. M. Moran (Chicago Illinois).

See also

• Koizumi Children

References

• 政治家情報 〜阿部 俊子〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2007-10-16.

External links

• Official website in Japanese.