is a Japanese

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of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the

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in the Diet of Japan. She is a descendant of Arimura Tsugizaemon, the ringleader of the Sakuradamon Incident, and

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, the admiral of the

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Early life and education

Haruko Arimura was born in Ishikawa Prefecture and grew up in

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. Her father, Kunihiro (國宏) is a politician and descended from

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of the

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, Her grand grand father, Kunihiko (國彦) was a banker. Her uncle, Kunitaka Arimura (有村國孝) is the inventor of Integrated Circuit Card. Her brothers, Kunitoshi (國俊) and Kunitomo (國知) Arimura are also politicians. Arimura family's Tūji (通字), the distinctive kanji used in the names of all men belonging to a Arimura family, is Kuni (國). After graduating from Omi Brotherhood High School ( 近江兄弟社高等学校), she got a

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in social science from

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(ICU) in

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and received a

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in Conflict Transformation from

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(SIT) in Vermont, United States. He joined McDonald's Japan as a manager in 1997.

Political career

Arimura was elected for the first time in 2001. Having been elected to the House of Councillors, Arimura stopped the Ph.D. in international business programme at

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. On 3 September 2014, she was appointed by the Abe Cabinet as Minister of State for Regulatory Reform, Minister of State for Measures to Combat Declining Birthrates, Minister of State for Gender Equality and

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in the Cabinet Office. Arimura led the

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department of the LDP during Prime Minister

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's term, and was replaced on 4 October 2021 by

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at the start of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's term. She is affiliated to

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Personal life

She is married to a Hakka-Chinese

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man and has two children with her husband.

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* in Japanese. Members of the House of Councillors (Japan) Aoyama Gakuin University alumni Female members of the House of Councillors (Japan) International Christian University alumni People from Shiga Prefecture Politicians from Ishikawa Prefecture Living people 1970 births SIT Graduate Institute alumni Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Members of Nippon Kaigi McDonald's people 21st-century Japanese politicians 21st-century Japanese women politicians {{Japan-politician-1970s-stub