| Mari Kushibuchi | |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Term Start: | April 28, 2022 |
| Constituency: | Tokyo PR Block |
| Predecessor: | Taro Yamamoto |
| Constituency2: | Tokyo's 23rd district |
| Predecessor2: | Kosuke Ito |
| Successor2: | Masanobu Ogura |
| Office2: | Member of the House of Councillors |
| Term Start2: | August 30, 2009 |
| Term End2: | November 16, 2016 |
| Birth Date: | 15 October 1967 |
| Party: | Reiwa Shinsengumi |
| Otherparty: | DPJ (formerly) Kibō (formerly) Independent politician / none (formerly) |
is a Japanese politician.
Kushibuchi sailed on the Peace Boat for the first time in 1990,[1] and later joined the associated nongovernmental organization as an executive.[2] In 2009, she contested her first House of Representatives election and won Tokyo's 23rd district for the Democratic Party of Japan. She succeeded incumbent Kōsuke Itō.[3] Kushibuchi lost her 2012 reelection bid to Masanobu Ogura.[4] Following the 2022 resignation of Tarō Yamamoto, Kushibuchi returned to the House of Representatives via proportional representation, this time as a member of Reiwa Shinsengumi.[5] [6]
On 1 June 2023, she was suspended from participating in the Diet for 10 days for "irregular behavior" in the lower chamber, which involved holding up a sheet of paper calling the no-confidence motion against Finance Minister Shun'ichi Suzuki a farce, while standing on the rostrum.[7]