Governor Yuike Koike (67), who was re-elected in the election of the Tokyo governor (four-year term), is a representative of a female politician who has penetrated the'glass ceiling' in a Japanese society with a strong conservative culture centered on men. It is counted.

He set a record-breaking record with a vote rate of close to 60% without a single street campaign because of the possible spread of infection in the election, which was held on the 5th in the event of a new coronavirus infection (Corona 19).

It was evaluated that the current preliminary campaign leaned toward Governor Koike early because of the current premium.

The coalition's ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Gongmyeong Party, took the lead early on to support Governor Koike, who held hands and competed as needed without a candidate for readership.

In this situation, the main opposition forces had no choice but to disperse the candidates, and the result was to disperse the votes, which was an environment that was absolutely in favor of Governor Koike.

In particular, the Corona 19 crisis that spread ahead of this election brought a lot of incumbent premiums to Governor Koike.

Governor Koike's positive response to votes by responding to the government's urgent need to respond to an emergency in the March 2020 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games was delayed to July next year for Corona 19, with the words ``city blockade''. Analysis that it bought is coming out.

Governor Koike drew attention by using short slogans with strong message delivery, such as advocating'stay home', which means staying home without going out after the central government declared an emergency.

It was pointed out that increasing the frequency of public exposure by attending press conferences related to Corona 19 also helped the election.

11 million voters in Tokyo cited Corona 19 as the most important issue in this election.

In this situation, Governor Koike seemed to try to communicate directly with the people through frequent press conferences, and this appears to have resulted in a positive evaluation of Governor Koike's first period.

◇ From station anchor to politician… An ever-changing political career The path that Governor Koike has walked through is so varied that it is called a riparian manga.

Born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan in 1952, he graduated from his hometown to high school and attended the Kansai Gakuin University Sociology Department, where he first met his first biography.

After reading a newspaper article about the addition of Arabic as the official language of the United Nations, he dreamed of an Arabic interpreter and went on his way to Egypt where his father worked as a trader.

After graduating from Cairo University and acting as an interpreter in Arabic, he entered the broadcasting industry in 1979 as an assistant anchor for Nippon TV (TV).

From 1988 to 1990, she became a celebrity as a female caster, working as a TV (TV) main anchor in Tokyo.

Jimin-do's heightened reputation in the broadcasting industry has become a springboard to advance into the political arena.

In 1992, as a member of the Japanese New Party led by Morihiro Hosokawa, he entered the National Assembly for the first time as a proportional representative of the House of Councilors, and took the path of a full-fledged politician the following year by placing a gold badge in the Hyogo prefecture, his hometown.

Since 2002, he has changed his achievements several times, until he settled in the Liberal Democratic Party, including the new party and the conservative party. By 2014, he achieved eight lines (including proportional representative number one) with Hyogo and Tokyo as regional districts.

While serving as a member of the House of Representatives, after receiving environmental awards, Japan's'Condoliza Rice' (the Secretary of State for Women during President George W. Bush) served as the first female defense minister and the first female defense minister in relation to foreign affairs and security in Prime Minister Abe's first Cabinet (2006-2007). ).

However, the Liberal Democratic Party was elected to support former secretary-general Shigeru Ishiba, who faced Abe's presidency in the presidency's elections just before the 2012 opposition election, and became a non-mainstream member of the Liberal Democratic Party, taking on a different seat in the second Abe cabinet. Did not.

This became a phone call to Governor Koike.

In July 2016, after dropping out of the Liberal Democratic Party's opposition party in the election to elect the governor of Yoshichi Mazo, who resigned after controversy over inappropriate political funding, he ran as an independent and defeated the Liberal Democratic Party candidate Hiroya Masuda recommended by Tokyo. Became the head of

Governor Koike created a local party called the'Domin First First' by winning momentum, defeating the Liberal Democratic Party in the 2017 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly elections and winning 49 of the 127 seats.

This led to the observation that the political influence of Governor Koike would increase and soon overtake the position of prime minister, but it could not go beyond that.

Prime Minister Abe, who was at the forefront of the scandal in the history of school affairs, drew up a'party of hope' about a month before the general election in October 2018 after dismissing the House of Representatives with a crisis-breaking card ahead of the North Korean nuclear crisis, aiming to advance into the central political arena. .

However, with the remark “I will exclude people who are not conservative,” the controversy over'exclusion politics' was enough to secure a seat of only 10%, not being able to cross the Liberal Democratic Party wall.

Numerous circumstances in his political career have also stigmatized Governor Koike as a'migratory politician'.

◇ Re-election Success Governor Koike's'Shall I Realize the Dream' Governor Koike's success in reelection is expected to increase his political status.

Ahead of this election, the Governor Koike even earned the nickname of'Yeoje', with the publication of a flat title titled'Yeoje Koike Yuriko'.

The nickname Yeoje can be associated with the observation that Governor Koike will be paving the way for Japan's first female prime minister based on reelection.

Although the variables remain depending on the situation of Corona19, if the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games, which have been postponed for one year, are held normally, Governor Koike will be given the opportunity to become one of the world's leading figures as head of the host city.

However, due to the political structure of Japan, it is said that even if Governor Koike's reputation at home and abroad increases, it will be difficult to become a prime minister leading Japan beyond the Tokyo metropolitan area.

Professor Lee Hun-mo of the Faculty of Law, Japan Central Academy, affirms that it is still far from being a female prime minister because of the nature of the Cabinet and the political climate of Japan.

Unlike the local government heads elected by voters, the position of the ruling party, such as securing supportive factions, is the most important in the cabinet of the House of Representatives in the Senate Cabinet system, which is why Governor Koike did not have that status.

◇ The representative politician of the Japanese right wing camp… With Korea, Governor Koike is considered to be a right-winger among Japanese mainstream politicians.

For this reason, there are few views that the relationship between Japan and Japan could worsen if we assume that Prime Minister Abe will go out and take over that position.

Regarding Japan's autonomous administration, the Koike governor, who is reformed in history and diplomatic affairs, is far more than Prime Minister Abe, and we can guess that the prospect is not unreasonable.

He campaigned against this when the US House of Representatives passed the resolution of the Japanese comfort women in 2007, and the LDP denied forced mobilization of the comfort women by attending a lecture in Japan during the 2011 opposition group'Re-special Meeting'. It is well known to claim it.

In 2014, it was compelled to withdraw the 1993 “Kono Discourse”, which recognized the Japanese government's forced mobilization of the comfort women.

After becoming a Governor of Tokyo, the event was held every year to commemorate the victims of the massacred Koreans who died during the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Until now, it has not changed its position.

In March 2003, the Japanese right-wing magazine'Voice' controversial, claiming that "there are enough military and diplomatic options to choose nuclear weapons."

This was because it was a direct reversal of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which was called the provision of the peace constitution by declaring that it had no power to give up the war.

It is against this background that the perspective in Korea looking at the victory of Governor Koike cannot be comfortable.

(Yonhap News, photo = Getty Image Korea)