ABE Toshiko
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Profile
- Date of birth
- May 19, 1959
- Place of Birth
- Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture
- Political party
- Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
- Affiliation
- Member of the House of Representatives
- Constituency
- Chugoku Proportional (Okayama 3)
- Number of times elected
- 6
Past career
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- Oct. 2024
- Minister of Education, Culture Sports, Science and Technology
- Dec. 2023
- State Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Oct. 2023
- Senior Director, Special Committee on Consumer Affairs, House of Representatives
- Oct. 2022
- Senior Director, Standing Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, House of Representatives
- Dec. 2021
- Senior Director, Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives
- Oct. 2020
- Chair, Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives
- Oct. 2018
- State Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Sept. 2014
- State Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
- Dec. 2012
- Parliamentary Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Sept. 2005
- Elected to the House of Representatives for the first time (currently serving 6th term)
- April 2003
- Vice President, Japanese Nursing Association
- April 2002
- Assistant Professor,Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences
- March 2000
- Lecturer, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Care Sciences
- Sept. 1997
- Completed Doctoral Course in nursing, University of Illinois Chicago
- April 1997
- Lecturer, Gunma University Graduate School of Health Sciences