Office1: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Term1: | 1946–1947 |
Constituency1: | Ibaragi |
Birth Date: | March 1908 |
Keiko Sugita (ja|杉田馨子, born March 1908) was a Japanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.[1]
Sugita graduated from the English Department of Japan Women's University in 1929. She married Shogo Sugita, a reporter for .
After World War II, Sugita joined the Liberal Party. With her husband unable to run for office, she was a Liberal candidate in Ibaragi in the 1946 general elections (the first in which women could vote), and was elected to the House of Representatives.[2] She lost her seat in the 1947 elections, in which she ran in the .
With Shogo having died in 1946, Sugita later ran an inn at Shima Onsen.