| Ayuko Kato | |
| Native Name Lang: | jp |
| Order1: | Member of the House of Representatives |
| Term Start1: | 16 December 2014 |
| Order: | Minister of State for Special Missions |
| Term Start: | 13 September 2023 |
| Predecessor: | Masanobu Ogura |
| Constituency1: | Yamagata 3rd district |
| Birth Date: | 1979 4, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan |
| Party: | Liberal Democratic Party |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Alma Mater: | Keio University |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Relatives: | Koichi Kato (father) |
| Children: | 2 |
| Primeminister: | Fumio Kishida |
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) who is the current member of the House of Representatives for Yamagata 3rd district.[1] She is currently serving as Minister of State in the Kishida Cabinet.
Kato was elected in the 2014 Japanese general election to the same seat as her father Koichi Kato, a longtime member of the House of Representatives for Yamagata Prefecture who had lost the seat in the 2012 general election.[2] [3] From 2006 to 2009, Kato was married to LDP politician Kensuke Miyazaki, who later served as member for Kyoto 3rd district from 2012 to 2016.