Xie Lianfang, this name is little known in China, but in Japan, it has a popular vote.
However, her supporters are more accustomed to calling her: Lotus Ship.
This Chinese-Japanese politician served as a member of the Japanese House of Councillors and chairman of the Constitutional Democratic Party Senate Countermeasures Committee during the Suga administration.
Earlier, in 2010-2012, she was a cabinet minister, the equivalent of the chincha minister of ancient China, who led administrative innovation.
This Chinese woman has made many histories in Japanese history - the first woman to serve as a party leader and the first Chinese woman to enter the cabinet.
What is even more surprising is that this woman with a good face was born as the grandson of a traitor, and later studied Chinese at Peking University, and was a female model in the entertainment industry.
Her legendary life has also strung together the complicated Sino-Japanese relations in modern times.
The time goes back to the 1940s.
At that time, Lianfang's grandmother, Chen Xingcun, traveled to and from Taiwan and Shanghai to do business. She ran various businesses such as tobacco and fruits, and became a wealthy businessman in the Chinese circle.
The wealthy Chinese businessman, on the other hand, was keen to support Japan's war of aggression. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chen Xingcun donated two fighter jets out of his own pocket. However, it was not donated to China, but to Japan.
In 1945, after Japan's defeat in the war, this veteran traitor was naturally prosecuted by the Nationalist government for the crime of traitor.
However, Chen Xingcun, who had a lot of wealth, hired a lawyer on the one hand, seized on the loophole in the law that the crime of traitorous traitors did not apply to the people of Taiwan Province, who were not applicable to Japanese rule, and then dredged up and down, and finally withdrew completely and returned to Taiwan without guilt.
Chen Xingcun, who had a sensitive sense of political smell, vigorously sponsored the Kuomintang reactionary government after returning to Taiwan. On behalf of the Qingguo Guild, she donated to build "Guomao New Village" and other dependent villages, and was even praised by the Kuomintang reactionaries in 1958.
It can be said that Lianfang's political genes originated from her grandmother.
In 1967, the lotus ship was born in Japan. Why was it born in Japan?
Originally, the Renfang family did not change the color of the Japanese, and her father married the Japanese Katsurako Saito, and then lived in Tokyo, Japan until his death in 1994.
The Lotus Fang family can be regarded as a typical example of Chinese skin and Japanese heart. Her father was engaged in the import and export of bananas in Taiwan, which is also a family business passed down from Chen Xing Village.
From kindergarten to university, Lianfang studied in the Aoyama Gakuin University system. In 1985, she officially became a Japanese citizen and renounced her ties to China.
In fact, although there is Chinese ancestry, Lotus's parents have educated Lotus Fang according to the Japanese, and even never speak Chinese at home.
At the age of 17, Lian Fang was admitted to the Department of Public Law of the Faculty of Law of Aoyama Gakuin University, and graduated in 1990.
But after graduation, the good-looking LianFang chose a completely different route from that of lawyers - she entered the entertainment circle.
In fact, as early as 1985, she released her debut album and appeared in the TV commercial of the Japanese NTT calling card.
After graduation, she engaged in beautiful girl photography, print and television media advertising performances, etc., and often appeared on Japanese television variety shows, just like the "popular little flowers" in Japan at that time. ”
In 1993, he was a reporter for the news program State EYE of Asahi Tv, and relied on his outstanding appearance to gain a large number of fans, which can be said to be "Japan's Wang Bingbing".
It was also the year that she married her fan, Nobuyuki Murata, a Japanese. In the eyes of her Japanese mother, her daughter has lived a peaceful life as a godson.
But everything quietly changed in 1995.
In 1995, Lotus Usher ushered in two major turning points.
First, when the Kobe earthquake broke out, she, as a special correspondent, gained the opportunity to broadcast weekly during the earthquake and began to become the "face of the nation".
Second, from 1995 to 1997, she came to the Chinese Language Center of Peking University to study Chinese.
The Kobe earthquake linked her to the country of Japan, and her ancestral home in Taiwan Province began to think politically as she studied Chinese in Beijing.
After returning to China, she told her husband unusually seriously that she was going to politics.
The husband firmly opposed this, and the two had a big fight, which also sowed the seeds of the end of the marriage.
Since then, Lianfang has begun to march into the political arena, and with her popularity and high appearance, she has gradually stood out from a group of male politicians.
With the rise of otaku culture in the 90s, Lotus Fang, who looks like a beautiful girl, has won many young male supporters.
These otaku iron ticket warehouses will explode with amazing support in a few years.
In the 2004 House of Councillors election, Onzao represented the Democratic Party of Japan in the Tokyo District Senate election, and was unsurprisingly elected.
On July 11, 2010, she was re-elected with 1,717,34 votes in the Japanese House of Councillors, setting a record for the highest number of votes ever held by the Tokyo Metropolitan Constituency and the highest number of votes in Japan.
For a time, Lian Fang, a former entertainment star, suddenly became a new star in the political arena.
People even paired her with handsome man Shinzo Abe, and netizens have said: Lang Cai female appearance.
2010 was a political highlight for Lotus. In that year, she was the first Chinese Minister of State in Japanese history to be in charge of "food safety and consumer affairs" in the Suga Cabinet as a "special director of administrative refresh".
After the 311 Miyagi earthquake in Japan in 2011, the country was facing a nuclear energy crisis and power shortages, and Renfang was urgently assigned by then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan to concurrently serve as the "Special Director of Electricity Saving Inspiration", and later became the "Minister of Administrative Refresh".
However, it is very difficult for a politician of Chinese descent to be in Japanese political circles that emphasize family, origin, and ancestry.
Soon, the Lotus Scandal erupted — in November 2011, he was revealed to be secretly meeting with the president of a real estate company with a history of drug abuse, nakayama, and was later exposed to a marital crisis, and applied for divorce from her husband, Nobuyuki Murata, until he was expelled from the Democratic Progressive Party led by Shinzo Abe.
However, even so, she is still close to the current Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, still plays an important role in Japanese politics, and is still a goddess in the hearts of thousands of old otaku, for her, the teachings of the traitorous grandmother are still there:
Follow the power and stay behind. The translation is: seek advantages and avoid harms.
After all, the traitor may also be a family gene.