Yoko Kayabuki

茅葺よう子
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Yoko Kayabuki is Japans newly elected prime minister in Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG. Kayabuki first appears in the second season of Stand Alone Complex and is elected as Japans first female prime minister. She reinstates Section 9 after a deal was made with Aramaki in the Stand Alone Complex 2 years after the raid by Umibozu commandos on Section 9s headquarters. Politically she was selected by the ruling party as an internal political movement to conservatism in the wake of the Laughing Man scandal that brought down the previous government. However she was perceived as being politically weak the Cabinet at this time was increasing in political power and becoming led by personality rather than by electoral responsibility and in addition the undercurrent of secret manipulation by the Cabinet Intelligence Agency through the Individual Eleven / Refugee Crisis sought to make the Prime Minister a rubber stamping figurehead it is a tribute the Kayabuki and her wisdom of selecting Daisuke Aramki and Major Kusanagi as personal advisors that prevented potentially cataclysmic events during the beginning of her premiership. This demonstration of capability and the calling in of favours owed at the height of the crisis increased her ability to control Japan in the wake thereof. She also demonstrated that she held clout from a military standpoint: The JASDF was her tool of choice for reminding the contending land and sea force commanders where Japans true military prowess was to be found from both a domestic and military standpoint. Kayabuki becomes a victim of the Individual Eleven and is involved with Section 9s investigation into the case. During the refugee crisis she is arrested under charges of treason for requesting the UN to intervene in the crisis though this action on the part of the Ruling Party chairman was not sanctioned by either party or electorate her escape from custody and the aid of Section 9 prevented this secret coup detat from becoming a reality and also then sent a clear signal to the American Empire that Japan prefers a Standalone status within the international community. She appears briefly in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. Solid State Society where she remains Prime Minister and Daisuke Aramakis immediate superior.
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