Chinese Herald: A Chinese member of the Japanese Senate and secretary general of the Senate of the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party, Ryūho (52), divorced her husband, freelance writer and visiting associate professor Nobuyuki Murata (54).
Murata said that he filed a divorce petition on August 7. The name of Renho in the information column of the main page of the Senate has changed from "Murata Renfang" to the old surname "Saito Renfang". Murata, who is currently a visiting associate professor at Waseda University, moved to Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture in August, and the two began their lives.
Regarding the reasons for the divorce, Nobuyuki Murata said that "their values are different, and the children have grown up." Even if you don't reluctantly maintain a marital relationship, you can be a partner and a friend", "not because you hate each other and divorce." ”
According to LianFang, they did not hire a lawyer and so on, and it was a "satisfactory divorce by agreement". LianFang first filed for divorce. She said her husband teaches at Waseda University and has been preparing to move to a local life, "but my constituency is in Tokyo, and I want to change Japan from Tokyo." "The children have all grown up, and considering each other's future, they don't think there is any need to live together," LianFang said.
In the early years, the two met on the information program where Renfang served as the host, and Murata was the director of the program. They were married in August 1993. In 1995, the husband and wife went to Beijing to study together. In 1997, Lotus gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses.
In 2011, a Japanese weekly magazine reported that Renfang was suspected of having an improper male-female relationship with a real estate president, etc., for which she was pursued by opposition lawmakers, who admitted to having had an affair with the president but denied having an improper relationship with him.
Lianfang's father, Hsieh Chul-shin, is Taiwanese, his mother is Japanese, and Lianfang himself was born in Japan and belongs to the second generation of Chinese in Japan. Ren Fang became a Japanese citizen in 1985 and ventured into show business as a teenager, working as a magazine cover girl, news anchor, car model and actress. From 1995 to 1997, Lian Fang studied at the Chinese Language Center of Peking University. In July 2004, Lian Fang ran for the Senate for the first time and was elected with 920,972 votes.
In the cabinet of Naoto Kan, Ren was the first Chinese Minister of State in Japanese history to be in charge of "food safety and consumer affairs" as a "special commissioner for administrative refresh". After the 311 East Japan Earthquake in 2011, when the country was facing a nuclear energy crisis and power shortages, Ryuga was urgently appointed by then-Prime Minister Naoto Suga as the "Special Director of Electricity Saving And Inspiration", and later as the "Minister of Administrative Innovation"; in the Cabinet of Noda Yoshihiko, Ryoba was "Special Director of Administrative Refresh and Civil Service Reform".
On September 15, 2016, Renfang (second from left) poses with former party leaders Katsuya Okada (third from left), Seiji Maehara (first from left), and Yuichiro Tamaki (fourth from left).
On September 15, 2016, japan's largest opposition party, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), held an election for the replacement of the party leader (representative) at the prince park tower tokyo in Tokyo, and LianFang won more than half of the votes in the first vote and was elected as the head of the DPP.
On September 15, 2016, Waiting for the election results.
The total number of points contested in the DPP's first election is 849. Members of Parliament have 2 points each, for a total of 294 points, and the party's determined parliamentary candidates have 1 point each, for a total of 118 points. There are 206 points for members of local councils (about 1,600 people) and 231 points for party members and supporters (about 235,000 people).
In the votes of party members, supporters and local legislators, Renfang scored 293 points; former foreign minister Seiji Maehara, who ran for office, scored 102 points; and Yuichiro Tamaki, vice chairman of the DPP's parliamentary countermeasures, received 42 points.