Midori Matsushima

Midori Matsushima
松島 みどり
220px at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry on November 5, 2013
Minister of Justice
In office 3 September 2014 – 20 October 2014
Prime Minister	Shinzō Abe
Preceded by	Sadakazu Tanigaki
Succeeded by	Yōko Kamikawa
Personal details
Born	馬場 みどり (Baba Midori) (1956-07-15) 15 July 1956 Toyonaka, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party
Alma mater	University of Tokyo

Midori Matsushima (松島 みどり, Matsushima Midori Chinese: 松岛绿  ; pinyin: song daolu, born 1956) is a Japanese politician. Her official name is Midori Baba (馬場 みどり, Baba Midori).

Overview

She is a politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Hyogo Prefecture and graduate of the University of Tokyo, she worked at the national newspaper Asahi Shimbun from 1980 to 1995. She was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000 after an unsuccessful run in 1996.

Policies

She is a supporter of the death penalty. In 2005, she said that serving non-pork meals to Islamic convicts in Japan prisons is a form of "reverse discrimination" that should be stopped. She also said in the same committee that "Criminals' human rights is of secondary importance" and "We should make sex criminals see movies of school girls playing in swimming pools, and use some kind of lie detector to check if they became decent. Even if they served their time decided by a judge, we don't want sex criminals to be in the outside world."

External links

• Official website in Japanese

Political offices
Preceded by Sadakazu Tanigaki	Minister of Justice 2014	Succeeded by Yōko Kamikawa