Mai Ohara
Mai Ohara | |
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Member of the House of Representatives of Japan | |
In office August 30, 2009 – November 16, 2012 | |
Constituency | Kyoto 5th district |
Member of the Kyoto Prefectural Assembly | |
Assumed office 2015 | |
Constituency | Maizuru |
Personal details | |
Born | Maizuru, Japan | July 10, 1974
Political party | Liberal Democratic Party of Japan; later independent |
Alma mater | Kwansei Gakuin University Kyoto University |
Website | http://oharamai.jp |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Japan |
Branch/service | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force |
Mai Ohara (
Biography
[edit]Born in Maizuru, Ohara joined the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force after graduating from high school, and graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University in 1999. She earned a master's degree from Kyoto University in 2007.[1]
In 2009, she was elected to the House of Representatives as a Liberal Democratic Party representative of Kyoto 5th district.[1] On June 26, 2012, during a vote on social security and integrated tax reform legislation, she was one of eleven representatives who urged Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to vote against the opposing Democratic Party representatives.[2]
In 2015, she was elected to the Kyoto Prefectural Assembly for Maizuru; she is the assembly's first female member to represent that constituency.[1] In 2019, she placed second place in the election with 0,836, with Masayoshi Ikeda ahead of her.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Profile of Mai Ohara". oharamai.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 4 March 2013.
- ^ "
民主党 :亀裂 は深 まるばかり処分 問題 が本格 化 も". Mainichi Shimbun. July 10, 2012. Archived from the original on July 1, 2012. Retrieved July 11, 2015. - ^ "????" (PDF). pref.kyoto.jp (in Japanese).
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