Kazumi Ota

Kazumi Ota
太田 和美
Ota in 2023
Mayor of Kashiwa
Incumbent
Assumed office
21 November 2021
Preceded byHiroyasu Akiyama
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
19 December 2014 – 28 September 2017
ConstituencySouthern Kanto PR
In office
23 April 2006 – 16 November 2012
Preceded byKazumi Matsumoto
Succeeded byTakumi Nemoto
ConstituencyChiba 7th (2006–2009)
Fukushima 2nd (2009–2012)
Member of the Chiba Prefectural Assembly
In office
2005–2006
ConstituencyMatsudo City
Personal details
Born (1979-08-28) 28 August 1979 (age 45)
Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations		DPJ
PLF
TPJ
LP
JIP
DP
Kibō no Tō
Reiwa Shinsengumi
Alma materNihon University

Kazumi Ota (太田 和美, Ōta Kazumi, born August 28, 1979) is a Japanese politician who is the current mayor of Kashiwa. She has previously served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) from 2006 to 2012, and again from 2014 to 2017.

Political career

Kazumi Ota was elected to the Chiba Prefectural Assembly in 2005 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2006 during special by-elections in Chiba 7th district. During 2009 general elections that marked DPJ's landslide victory, Ota was re-elected in Fukushima 2nd district. She lost in 2012 national elections, got elected in 2014 and lost again in 2017.[1]

She once worked as a hostess, which in the past would have likely ignited a scandal but has not presently done so.

References

  1. ^ Kazumi Ota's official website
  • 政治家情報 〜太田 和美〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2007-10-20. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  • Tabuchi, Hiroko (July 28, 2009). "Young Japanese Women Vie for a Once-Scorned Job". The New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2010.


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