Kimie Hatano
畑野 君枝
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
19 December 2014  14 October 2021
Preceded byKatsuhito Nakajima
Succeeded byShin Miyakawa
ConstituencySouthern Kanto (Kanagawa 10th district)
Member of the House of Councillors
In office
26 July 1998  25 July 2004
Preceded byFumio Saito
Succeeded byAkio Koizumi
ConstituencyKanagawa at-large district
Personal details
Born
Onishi Kimie

(1957-01-19) 19 January 1957
Nakahara Ward, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Political partyJapanese Communist Party
Alma materYokohama National University (B.Ed.)

Kimie Hatano (Japanese: 畑野君枝, Hepburn: Hatano Kimie, born 28 January 1957, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa[1]) is a member of the Japanese Communist Party who served in both the House of Representatives[2] and the House of Councillors. In the House of Representatives, she represented the 10th District of Kanagawa prefecture, while in the House of Councillors she represented the second seat of the Kanagawa at-large district. Hatano is opposed to the Technical Intern Training Program, saying that the workers in the program are being subordinated.[3] She is also opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.[4] Hatano supports having more classes available in the evenings at junior high schools[5] and is opposed to stopping state grants to national universities, saying that tuition would increase dramatically.

Early life

Hatano was born on 19 January 1957 in Nakahara Ward, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture. She would eventually graduate from Kamimaruko Primary School, Kamanigaya Middle School and Midorigaoka High School. During high school, she wished to become a manga artist, so much so that she created a manga study group for that purpose. After leaving high school however, she went on to earn a Bachelor of Education from Yokohama National University. which she used to become a teacher in a number of high schools and junior high schools in Kanagawa Prefecture, as well as for a Junior High school in Ōta Ward, Tokyo

Political career

After being invited by former classmates from her high school who were supportive of the Japanese Communist Party, she began working as the chairman of the Kanagawa Prefectural Committee for the Democratic Youth League and around the same time joined the Communist Party.

In the 1995 House of Councillors election, she ran as a Communist Party candidate for the Kanagawa at-large district, but was unsuccessful coming in 6th place.[6] In the 1998 House of Councillors election, she again ran for the Kanagawa district and won, in part thanks to a boom of support for the Communist Party and the fact that the conservative vote had been split among a number of different candidates. She is so far the on member of the Communist Party to have been elected to the Kanagawa district.

During her time in the House of Councillors, she was a member of the Committee on Education and Science, Accounting Committee, the National Life and Economic Survey Committee and was the vice-chairman of the National Diet Affairs Committee of the House of Councillors with the Communist Party.[7]

She ran for re-election in the 2004 House of Councillors election for the Kanagawa district but was defeated, in part due to a decline in support for the Communist Party and in part due to the consolidation of the conservative vote around the candidate from the Liberal Democratic Party.

She ran in the 2005 By-election[8] and in the 2007 election but was defeated both times.

Election results

House of Councillor elections

2007[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Hiroe Makiyama 1,010,866 25.4
Liberal Democratic Yutaka Kobayashi 895,752 22.5
Democratic Masaki Mito 781,533 19.7
Komeito Akira Mito 691,842 17.4
Communist Kimie Hatano 385,619 9.7
Social Democratic Shigeru Wada 128,757 3.2
People's New Sachiko Saito 61,219 1.5
Ishin Seito Shimpu Toshimori Mizoguchi 21,645 0.5
2005 By-Election [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Yoriko Kawaguchi 1,150,868 50.2
Democratic Hiroe Makiyama 765,589 33.4
Communist Kimie Hatano 375,507 16.4
2004[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Akio Koizumi 1,217,100 33.2
Democratic Keiichiro Asao (Incumbent) 856,504 23.4
Democratic Keiko Chiba (Incumbent) 843,759 23.0
Communist Kimie Hatano (Incumbent) 397,660 10.9
Social Democratic Keiko Ueda 254,943 7.0
Independent Hajime Manabe 71,170 1.9
Innovation Isao Kuwakubo 22,275 0.6
1998[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Keiichiro Asao 640,463 18.0
Communist Kimie Hatano 527,799 14.8
Democratic Keiko Chiba 510,371 14.3
Independent Marutei Tsurunen 502,712 14.1
Liberal Democratic Fumio Saito 463,193 13.0
Social Democratic Tomoko Abe 298,244 8.4
Liberal Democratic Isao Makishima 286,604 8.1
Liberal Takeshi Hidaka 241,189 6.8
New Socialist Yoshiko Bannai 27,335 0.8
Youth Liberal Party Katsuo Sato 19,567 0.6
Green Communist Party Kazunari Sugiuchi 14,842 0.4
Sports & Peace Takashi Hayashi 12,350 0.4
Sports & Peace Teruo Takano 10,272 0.3
Ishin Seito Shimpu Minoru Hashimoto 8,686 0.2
Sports & Peace Yoshien Waguri 2,149 0.1
1995[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Frontier Akira Matsu 718,030 28.2
Liberal Democratic Kiyoharu Ishiwata 466,457 18.3
Socialist Tsuyoshi Saito 371,889 14.6
Independent Marutei Tsurunen 339,484 13.3
New Party Sakigake Yoshimi Ishikawa 259,327 10.2
Communist Kimie Hatano 256,015 10.1
Independent Tadashi Kobayashi 56,491 2.2
Party to Create a New Era Mariko Miyazaki 25,901 1.0
Japan Wellfare Party Yukiko Matsuzaki 20,425 0.8
Green Farming Coalition Shingo Umezu 10,367 0.4
Green Citzens and Farmers Union Yutaka Otada 8,559 0.3
Education Party Yuko Ashina 5,749 0.2
New Political Wind Satoshi Yanagisawa 4,351 0.2
World Johrekai Masayuki Kanai 1,559 0.1

House of Representatives elections

Single Member District results

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