is a Japanese

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. In some English-language Japanese newspapers her family name is romanized as Noono. She was born in

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in 1935 and moved to

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at the end of

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. She graduated from Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School in 1954 and attended the School of Midwifery attached to the Medical Department of

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. Nohno worked as a nurse for more than thirty years before beginning her political career. She was first elected to the

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in 1992, and was reelected in 1998 and 2004. In 2001 she served as the Vice Minister for Labor for half a year. Prime Minister Koizumi appointed her

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on 27 September 2004. Her selection was somewhat controversial. Her background is in medicine, with no formal legal training. She is only the second woman to serve in the position. The first was Tachiko Nagao, who served for ten months in 1996. Nohno has spoken in favor of immigration and assimilation of immigrants into Japanese society.

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