Mari Kushibuchi | |
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櫛渕 万里 | |
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Member of the House of Representatives | |
Assumed office April 28, 2022 | |
Preceded by | Taro Yamamoto |
Constituency | Tokyo PR Block |
Member of the House of Councillors | |
In office August 30, 2009 – November 16, 2016 | |
Preceded by | Kosuke Ito |
Succeeded by | Masanobu Ogura |
Constituency | Tokyo's 23rd district |
Personal details | |
Born | October 15, 1967 |
Political party | Reiwa Shinsengumi |
Other political affiliations | DPJ (formerly) Kibō (formerly) Independent politician / none (formerly) |
Mari Kushibuchi (櫛渕 万里, Kushibuchi Mari, born 15 October 1967) 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]