is a Japanese politician. Kushibuchi sailed on the

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for the first time in 1990, and later joined the associated nongovernmental organization as an executive. In 2009, she contested her first

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election and won Tokyo's 23rd district for the

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. She succeeded incumbent Kōsuke Itō. Kushibuchi lost her 2012 reelection bid to Masanobu Ogura. Following the 2022 resignation of

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, Kushibuchi returned to the House of Representatives via proportional representation, this time as a member of

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