is a Japanese

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of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the

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in the

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(national legislature). A native of

Miyagi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Miyagi Prefecture has a population of 2,305,596 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Miyagi Prefecture borders Iwate Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefecture to the nort ...

, she attended

Miyagi Gakuin Women's Junior College is a private university in Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. History The Miyagi Girls' School was founded by the Reformed Church in the United States in Japan with the assistance of missionaries Masayoshi Oshikawa and William Edwin Hoy in 1886. It ...

and Mitsui Memorial Hospital Nursing School;

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, and

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for her Doctorate (PhD.) in the United States. She was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in September 2005. She currently resides in her home prefecture in Japan, and she is divorced from Bloomberg media professional, J. M. Moran (Chicago Illinois).

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in Japanese. 1959 births Living people Female members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Japanese nurses Koizumi Children Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Politicians from Miyagi Prefecture University of Illinois Chicago alumni University of Alabama at Birmingham alumni Japanese expatriates in the United States 21st-century Japanese women politicians {{Japan-politician-1950s-stub

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