is a Japanese politician. She served in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan.
| Miho Takai | |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Office: | Mayor of Miyoshi |
| Term Start: | 24 July 2021 |
| Office2: | Member of the |
| Term Start2: | 30 April 2015 |
| Term End2: | 25 June 2021 |
| Constituency2: | Miyoshi 1st district |
| Office3: | Member of the House of Representatives |
| Term Start3: | 10 November 2003 - 8 August 2005 21 December 2005 |
| Term End3: | 16 November 2012 |
| Constituency3: | Tokushima 2nd district Shikoku-PR |
| Alma Mater: | Waseda University |
| Birth Date: | 30 November 1971 |
| Birth Place: | Mino, Miyoshi, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan |
| Party: | Independent (2015-present) |
| Otherparty: | Democratic (before 2015) |
She was born in Miyoshi District, Tokushima and graduated from Waseda University. she was elected for the first time in 2003 after a run in 2000.
She lost her seat in the 2005 general election, but she regained the seat in December after Masanori Gotō's resignation.
She won Shunichi Yamaguchi and got the Tokushima 2nd district's seat for the first time in 2009 general election, but she lost the seat in 2012 general election.
She decided to run for Tokushima Prefectural Assembly election[1] in 2014.
In April 2015, she ran as an Independent candidate endorsed by the DPJ from Miyoshi 1st district in the Tokushima Prefecture Assembly election and won the first place.[2] She was re-elected without a vote in the 2019 Tokushima Prefectural Assembly election.
On May 2, 2021, Takai resigned from the Tokushima Prefectural Assembly and announced her candidacy for Mayor of Miyoshi.[3] Kamon Iizumi, who was the governor of Tokushima at that time and Shunichi Yamaguchi, who is the House of Representatives member of LDP and once competed with her, announced support her. As a result of the ballot counting, she was elected the mayor of Miyoshi.[4]