Mai Ohara Explained

Term Start:August 30, 2009
Term End:November 16, 2012
Term Start2:2015
Birth Date:10 July 1974
Birth Place:Maizuru, Japan
Nationality:Japanese
Party:Liberal Democratic Party of Japan
Website:http://oharamai.jp
Allegiance:Japan
Branch:Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

is a Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives of Japan.[1]

Biography

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Profile of Mai Ohara . oharamai.jp . ja . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130304134925/http://oharamai.jp/profile.html . 4 March 2013.
  2. News: July 10, 2012 . 民主党:亀裂は深まるばかり 処分問題が本格化も. Mainichi Shimbun. https://web.archive.org/web/20120701000515/http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20120628k0000m010076000c.html. dead. July 1, 2012. July 11, 2015.
  3. Web site: ???? . ja . pref.kyoto.jp.