Yuko Sato
| Yuko Sato | |
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| 佐藤夕子 | |
| Aichi Prefectural Assembly | |
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In office 2007 – 21 July 2009 |
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| House of Representatives for the Aichi 1st district | |
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In office 2009 – 16 December 2012 |
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| Nagoya City Council | |
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Assumed office April 2015 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 6, 1963 Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan |
| Political party | Genzei Nippon |
Yuko Sato (佐藤夕子? Satō Yūko) is a Japanese politician and member of the Genzei Nippon party. She previously served one term in the House of Representatives of Japan's national Diet and currently serves on the Nagoya city council in Aichi Prefecture.
Sato was born in Nagoya city, Aichi Prefecture. In 1983 she graduated from the Junior College of Kinjo Gakuin University and became a kindergarten teacher. In September 2006 she became a secretary to Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) politician Takashi Kawamura, who represented Aichi 1st district in the House of Representatives of Japan's national Diet.
Sato contested the Nagoya City Higashi district of the Aichi Prefectural Assembly as a DPJ candidate in the April 2007 general election and claimed 58% of the vote. In April 2009 resigned from the House of Representatives to contest the Nagoya mayoral election. Sato subsequently resigned from the Prefectural Assembly in July 2009 in order to contest Kawamura's seat as the DPJ candidate at the August 2009 general election. Sato won 54.4% of the vote in an election that brought the DPJ into power for the first time in its existence.
Sato lodged resignation papers with DPJ officials in March 2011 in order to allow her to campaign on behalf of Genzei Nippon ("Tax Reduction Japan"), a party formed by Kawamura in April 2010. The DPJ did not immediately accept her resignation and instead considered expelling her from the party, but eventually granted her request to leave in May 2011. This made her the new party's first member in the national Diet.
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