Yuriko Koike

Yuriko Koike
小池 百合子
Governor of Tokyo
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 August 2016
Deputy	Mitsuchika Tarao Hiroshi Kajihara Kei Takechi Manabu Miyasaka
Preceded by	Yōichi Masuzoe
Minister of Defense
In office 4 July 2007 – 27 August 2007
Prime Minister	Shinzō Abe
Preceded by	Fumio Kyūma
Succeeded by	Masahiko Kōmura
Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs
In office 27 September 2004 – 26 September 2006
Prime Minister	Junichirō Koizumi
Preceded by	Toshimitsu Motegi
Succeeded by	Sanae Takaichi
Minister of the Environment
In office 22 September 2003 – 26 September 2006
Prime Minister	Junichirō Koizumi
Preceded by	Shunichi Suzuki
Succeeded by	Masatoshi Wakabayashi
Member of the House of Representatives for Tokyo's 10th district
In office 11 September 2005 – 30 August 2009
Preceded by	Kōki Kobayashi
Succeeded by	Takako Ebata
Personal details
Born	(1952-07-15) 15 July 1952 Ashiya, Hyōgo, Japan
Political party	Independent (2018–present)
Website	Official website

Yuriko Koike (born 15 July 1952) is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Tokyo.

She was born and raised in Ashiya, Hyōgo Prefecture. She dropped out of University in Japan, who moved to the Middle East and studied Arabic. She graduated from Cairo University in Egypt, and she began to work an interpreter and translator of Arabic. She worked as a journalist in the 1980s and entered politics in the 1990s.