In this process, there were too many controversies in her body, and the rumors that were first rumored in Japan were called Lee Teng-hui "Daddy", and she also visited the Yasukuni Shrine...
| Author: Ah Ye
| Editor: Rui Su
Yuriko Koike is "on fire" again, but this time it has nothing to do with her status as a "Shiratomi" and a "political assassin", but because as the governor of Tokyo, she is obsessed with social distancing at the press conference, and personally directs the reporters to disperse with a sentence of "too dense".
This made the Japanese netizens "brain hole" open:
Someone designed her as the protagonist of the game, and the "small pool" in the game needed to disperse the crowd with a limited time with a sentence of "too dense";
Someone drew her as a comic character, and the "Koike" in the comic wore a mask, as long as the hand was raised, and then said "too dense", the surrounding people would form a 2-meter interval between them;
And the most common is a variety of "ghost animal" videos, demonic and brainwashing.
From a popular female anchor to a political "female assassin", Yuriko Koike has created many "firsts": Japan's first female defense minister, the first female defense minister of the Liberal Democratic Party, and the first female governor of Tokyo.
She never hid her ambitions and seemed to be aiming for "Japan's first female prime minister." But in the process, there were too many controversies in her body, and the first rumor in Japan was that she called Lee Teng-hui "Daddy" and also visited the Yasukuni Shrine...
Rich women do not do "vase of gold"
Born in 1952, Yuriko Koike is a proper "rich second generation". His father ran four oil trading companies, and was not only the secretary general of the Kansai Economic Friends Association, but also the chairman of the National Small and Medium Trade Alliance.
Xiao Chi, who was born with beauty and wealth, is not willing to be a "vase of gold".
During junior high and high school, she attended a private aristocratic girls' school in Kobe City, excelling in both athletic activities and academic performance, and then entered the Department of Sociology at Kansai Gakuin University.
In 1971, however, at the age of 19, Koike made a startling decision to drop out of college and go to Cairo, Egypt, to continue his studies.
At that time, for the Japanese who wanted to go abroad to gild, the United States and Britain were the first choice, while Koike chose Egypt.
This is not unrelated to Oike's father. As a businessman, he travels frequently around the world, once telling young children at the dinner table about how important oil is to resource-poor Japan.
Her father's words planted a "seed" in Koike's heart, and when she grew up, she firmly believed that "Arabic will be the next language to be included in the lingua franca of the United Nations", and there was a lot of room for development in Egypt to study.
In September 1971, Koike, supported by his father, came to Egypt smoothly. However, because she had not studied Arabic before, she could not keep up with the course requirements, and was turned away by Cairo University. After being frustrated, she did not give up, but ran to other local schools to "raid" and practiced the language for 8 months, and finally entered the coveted Cairo University.
I have to say that Koike still has foresight.
In 1973, Arabic really became one of the working languages of the United Nations. Koike also successfully "opened and hung" in the workplace. Not long after graduating, she was offered the opportunity to work as a moderator and translator at events such as former Palestinian leader Arafat and former Libyan leader Muammar El-Qaddafi.
During the 1991 Gulf War, she became a beautiful anchor known throughout Japan. Subsequently, she began to think about changing careers and wanted to enter the political arena.
And this decision was also influenced by her father. Koike's father ran in the 1969 House of Representatives elections but was not elected to the House of Representatives. His father did not fulfill his political dreams, and Koike wanted to take over the baton.
With her popularity as an anchor, she was recognized by Hosokawa Gohei and was invited to participate in the 1992 Senate election and was elected to the Senate. The following year, Hosokawa was elected Prime Minister of Japan, and Koike became parliamentary secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Her first political gamble was a success.
Political "Whirlwind of Koike"
In Japan, Koike has a label on his body: "Koizumi Baby".
In 2003, koike first entered the cabinet when then-Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appointed her minister of the environment.
Since then, she has been highly valued by Koizumi for her popularity and outstanding eloquence, and as a "political assassin" to "clean up the portal" for Koizumi in the House of Representatives election, successfully "killing" the LDP legislators who opposed Koizumi.
At that time, the Japanese media rushed to report the scandal between Koike and Koizumi, and it is said that the two almost got married at that time. But, whether the rumors are true or not, the two men still maintain a good relationship and are staunch political allies.
In 2008, Koike was interested in competing for the president of the Liberal Democratic Party, and Koizumi, who had been out of office for two years, still came out to stand for her. Of course, after Koizumi's second son, Jinjiro, entered politics, Koike also tried his best to pave the way for him.
Yuriko Koike (front row left) and Junichiro Koizumi (front row middle).
Unlike the "alliance" with Koizumi, Koike and Shinzo Abe have a more complicated relationship.
In 2007, she was invited by Abe to re-enter the cabinet and became Japan's first female defense minister. Both of them were on the right in their political stance, and it was said that they would be the same people, but they did not expect that the relationship became more and more rigid later.
The turning point was the 2016 Tokyo Governor Election. Koike did not wait for the party's recommendation and risked being punished to run for the election on his own, which is equivalent to publicly turning his face with the "old owner" of the Liberal Democratic Party.
As the president of the Liberal Democratic Party, Abe gave Koike enough face at that time, only gave her a punishment of "advice to quit the party", and did not break with her.
As a result, with a popularity and good impression far beyond other competitors, Koike successfully became the first female governor of Tokyo with an absolute advantage.
In June 2017, Koike published a photo album, and the circulation of the first edition reached 15,000 copies, which is equivalent to the level of well-known stars, which shows the high popularity.
However, this election did not satisfy Koike. Soon after, she "set herself up", formed a new political party " the First Association of the People's Republic " and served as a representative ( i.e. the head of the party ) , and started a "stage" with the Liberal Democratic Party.
Even so, the angry Abe had only attacked the "First People's Association" and never attacked Koike himself.
Under Koike's elaborate layout, the "First Tokyo People's Association" won the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Election on July 2, 2017, and the Liberal Democratic Party suffered a crushing defeat.
Even more unexpectedly, the day after the election was successful, Koike announced his resignation as a representative of the "First People's Association of the People's Republic of China". Although Koike said that she was "concentrating on doing a good job as governor of The Capital," the outside world speculated that she was retreating and wanted to make a breakthrough in national politics, and even compete with Abe for the position of prime minister.
Sure enough, on September 25, 2017, Abe announced the dissolution of the House of Representatives and an early general election. On the same day, Koike announced the formation of the "Party of Hope" and personally served as the party's representative, competing head-on with the Liberal Democratic Party, led by Abe.
Under the election, Koike did not miss the old feelings of working together, repeatedly criticized Abe's policies for dragging down Japan's economic development, and explicitly stated that he would challenge "Abenomics".
For a time, a strong "whirlwind of Koike" blew up in The Japanese political arena, and Koike was also regarded by the outside world as a popular candidate for the future "Japan's first female prime minister".
Controversy abounds
However, as everyone can see today, Koike's challenge did not succeed. There are many factors that contributed to the failure, one of which was the extremes of her political stance.
Koike is a typical right-wing politician who has visited the Yasukuni Shrine many times and clamored for a revision of the peace constitution.
Before the 2017 election, Japan's largest opposition party, the Democratic Progressive Party , was intent on "defecting" its candidates to Koike's "Party of Hope," but Koike intended to shut out some of the "dissidents."
She declared that leftist party members who oppose constitutional amendments and security laws would be excluded. This directly overshadows the bipartisan cooperation plan.
Before Abe could make much of a move, his opponent "disintegrated" from within. In the end, Abe won a great victory, and Koike, who failed to become Japan's first female prime minister, simply resigned from the position of representative of the "Party of Hope" and honestly became the governor of Tokyo.
In addition to his political stance to the right, Koike's personal relationship with former Taiwan leader Lee Teng-hui has also sparked controversy.
The two have a deep relationship. In 1998, Koike appeared at the "Golden Wedding" commemorative party of Lee Teng-hui and his wife, and sang Japanese songs to express congratulations.
In 2001, Lee Teng-hui planned to go to Japan for heart surgery, but the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs made it difficult for him not to issue him a visa, and Koike even criticized the Japanese government for this.
After Koike was elected governor of Tokyo in 2016, he immediately formed the "Metropolitan People's Priority Association," which was also modeled after lee teng-hui's "Hope Academy."
Lee Teng-hui once revealed that Koike called him "Taiwan's Ou Duo Sang (Taiwan's father)."
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In 2017, when Koike was gaining momentum in the political arena, some Taiwan media also introduced her friendship with Taiwan and Lee Teng-hui in a large way with "pro-Taiwan factions." However, the title of "Taiwan Dad" has aroused the disgust of many Taiwan netizens.
In 2018, Koike's heart to do things did not die, and he made a surprising statement at the press conference, saying that "the Senkaku Islands (that is, China's Diaoyu Islands) are owned by the state, and the state should consider preserving them." At that time, some people criticized that it was because of the decline in popularity that she began to hype up the territorial issue to attract attention.
After the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, Koike was hit again, but he still "bitten to death" and did not cancel the Olympic Games. On the day the Postponement of the Olympic Games was announced, she immediately told the public not to go out on weekends.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama posted a bombardment: "The Tokyo city government deliberately concealed the number of infected people in order to host the Tokyo Olympic Games as scheduled. Governor Yuriko Koike hurried to make this statement after the postponement of the Olympic Games, when the new crown pneumonia had spread. Which is more important, citizens or the Olympics? ”
So far, the number of confirmed cases in Tokyo has reached 3439, accounting for nearly 30% of the total number of confirmed cases in Japan. Under the pressure, in addition to saying that "it is too dense", Koike may have to come up with more "hard-core" epidemic prevention measures to lead the people through the difficulties as soon as possible.