is a Japanese economist and politician. She is a professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia at the

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. Yasutomi came out as a

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woman in 2014.

Education

Yasutomi graduated from

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in 1991 with a degree in economics and continued to graduate with a PhD in 1997 on the financial history of Manchuria.

Career

Yasutomi's first tenured post was as a Visiting Research Associate at the London School of Economics, 1996–7. In 1997 Yasutomi was employed as Assistant Professor at Nagoya University until moving to the University of Tokyo in 2000. In 2009, Yasutomi was promoted to Professor, after holding several assistant professor roles within the university. She is a specialist in the economics of Manchuria, whose research received a Nikkei Economics Culture Award. Other research interests include the socio-ecology of East Asia,

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, harassment theory,

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and the thoughts of

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Politics

In July 2018 Yasutomi ran as a candidate in the mayoral elections for

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, near Tokyo. She lost to the current candidate Koichi Morita by a margin of 12,000 votes. In Yasutomi's campaign agenda, her main priority was a focus on bringing an end to child abuse. In 2019, Yasutomi was one of ten candidates from the new

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party to stand for election to the House of Councillors. The film ''Reiwa Uprising'' was made about Yasutomi's attempt to be elected and was screened at the Tokyo Film Festival in 2019.

References

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