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Date of birth: Sept. 3, 1960
LDP faction: Nonaffiliated
Electoral district: Lower House;
Gifu No. 1 (fifth term)
Reappointed as state minister
in charge of consumer affairs,
Noda will have to continue
scrambling to tackle the
tainted-rice controversy.
A former posts and telecommunications
minister,
she was asked to run in the
LDP's presidential election
but refused so she could address
the food-safety scandal.
Noda gained notice by opposing
Junichiro Koizumi's postal
privatization drive. This stance
led to her running as an independent
in the election Koizumi
called in 2005, and she won
against Yukari Sato, whom Koizumi
had sent against her as
an "assassin." Noda later returned
to the LDP.
After working at a major
hotel, Noda became the youngest
Gifu Prefectural Assembly
member in 1987 and was
appointed postal minister in
1998, at the time the youngest
minister in the postwar era.
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