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Sep 30, 1969 Shibetsu, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan 54 years old
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About Toshiko Takeya
- Toshiko Takeya (?????, Takeya Toshiko, married name ?????, Kikuchi Toshiko; born September 30, 1969) is Japanese Senator from Tokyo and a member of Komeito ("Justice Party").
- She received the second highest vote share (13.2%) in the 2010 Japanese Senate election in Tokyo and succeeded Yuji Sawa as Komeito Senator from Tokyo who retired after one term. A native of Shibetsu town, Hokkaido, Takeya graduated from Soka High School in Kodaira city, Tokyo and from Soka University's Faculty of Economics in 1992.
- During her university studies, she passed the examination as Certified Public Accountant (konin kaikeishi) in 1991.
- After graduation, she began to work for Tomatsu "LLC" (kansa hojin, a business type for external auditors, regulated by Japanese CPA legislation).
- In 1996, she transferred to Tomatsu spin-off ABeam Consulting "Ltd." (K.K.).
- Her work at ABeam included development projects in Indonesia and Vietnam. As Yuji Sawa announced his retirement in order to not reach Komeito's age limit of 66 while in office, Takeya decided to enter national politics in December 2009.
- Tokyo elects five Senators per election since 2007; in the 2010 election, popular Democratic administrative reform minister Renho Murata garnered over 1.7 million votes, more than twice that of any other candidate.
- Takeya received 806,862 votes, about 20,000 less than Sawa six years before, but enough for second place as top elected Murata took more than a quarter of the Tokyo vote – Sawa had ranked fourth behind the major party candidates in 2004 –, and above Komeito's target of 800,000 votes.As of 2012, she is a member in the Committees on Financial Affairs (zaisei kin'yu), Oversight of Administration (gyosei kansa) and the Special Committee on Official Development Assistance and Related Matters (seifu kaihatsu enjo nado ni kan suru tokubetsu-iinkai).
