Famous People with Name Mieko

Mieko Kanai            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Mieko Kanai: a Japanese writer of fiction -- especially short stories -- and poetry. She is also a literary critic. In 1968 she received the Gendaishi Techo Prize for poetry.[1]

Mieko Kawakami            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Mieko Kawakami: a Japanese singer and writer from Osaka. She was awarded the 138th Akutagawa Prize for promising new writers of serious fiction (2007) for her novel Chichi to Ran (???) ("Breasts and Egg"). [1][2] Kawakami has released three albums and three singles as a singer. "Chichi to Ran" is her second novel. It describes the I concept and the relation between the heart and the body through three female characters.[3]

Mieko Kamimoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Mieko Kamimoto: a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Asakura District, Fukuoka and graduate of Fukuoka University of Education, she was elected for the first time in 2001.

Mieko Kobayashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Mieko Kobayashi: a Japanese politician and member of the House of Councillors for the Japanese Communist Party.

Mieko Yoshimura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Mieko Yoshimura: She was elected on January 25, 2009. She defeated the sitting governor of Yamagata Prefecture, Hiroshi Saito in an upset. A native of Oe, Yamagata, she worked at a help-wanted advertising company before becoming a notary public for the city government of Yamagata. She soon became a member of Yamagata Prefecture's Education Committee before running for governor in 2008. She is Yamagata's first female governor and the sixth in Japanese history.