Takako Doi

Takako Doi
Speaker of the House of Representatives
In office 6 August 1993 – 27 September 1996
Monarch	Akihito
Deputy	Hyōsuke Kujiraoka
Preceded by	Yoshio Sakurauchi
Succeeded by	Sōichirō Itō
Chairwoman of the Social Democratic Party
In office 9 September 1986 – 31 July 1991
Preceded by	Masashi Ishibashi
Succeeded by	Makoto Tanabe
In office 28 September 1996 – 15 November 2003
Preceded by	Tomiichi Murayama
Succeeded by	Mizuho Fukushima
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 27 December 1969 – 11 September 2005
Personal details
Born	(1928-11-30)November 30, 1928 Kobe, Hyōgo, Empire of Japan
Died	September 20, 2014(2014-09-20) (aged 85) Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Political party	Social Democratic Party
Other political affiliations	Japanese Socialist Party

Takako Doi (土井 たか子, Doi Takako, November 30, 1928 – September 20, 2014) was a prominent Japanese politician from 1980 until her retirement in 2005. She was the first female Lower House Speaker in Japan, the highest position a female politician has ever held in the country's modern history, as well as the country's first female Opposition Leader.^[1]