Named after the Olympic flame when she was born days before Japan hosted the Sum...
TOKYO - Named after the Olympic flame when she was born days before Japan hosted the Summer Olympics in 1964, Seiko Hashimoto has lived up to her name by taking part in seven Olympics and doing it in two sports.
The 54-year-old ruling party lawmaker now assumes the post of Olympics minister in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s reshuffled cabinet, allowing her to oversee Japan’s second hosting of the Summer Games that begin on July 24, 2020. Her first name, Seiko, is written with the same first character as the Japanese for “Olympic flame” - seika - in commemoration of the 1964 event, which opened five days after her birth and was a pivotal event in modern Japanese history.
She is also the only Japanese woman to compete in the Olympics while serving as a lawmaker, after she won election to the upper house of parliament in 1995 and finished her Olympic career at Atlanta as a cyclist a year later.
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