Career
She has been married to Senator"ei Ikenobo, the Ikenobo family patriarch, since 1963 and has two daughters, Yuki, the next head of the family, and Mika.
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Yasuko Ikenobo
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Politics
She is a Komeito politician, but she is not a member of Sōka Gakkai as former Councillor Kunihiro Tsuzuki and Councillor Shozo Kusakawa.
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A native of Tokyo and dropout of Gakushuin University (left in 1961), she was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996 as a member of the New Frontier Party, which later split into several parties including the New Komeito Party. Ikenobo was born the third daughter of Viscount Michitora Umedani, head of a former kuge family and Member of the House of Peers.
