(As of March 2025)
OTSUJI Kanako
Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Kinki Bloc (proportional representation), elected twice
- In-House Group: The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Independent
- Born: 16 December 1974, Osaka
- Education:
- Hyogo Prefectural Yumenodai High School
- Faculty of Agriculture, Kochi University (coursework toward a bachelor's degree)
- Faculty of Commerce, Doshisha University
- Career:
- Member, House of Councillors (one term)
- Member, Osaka Prefectural Assembly (2003; youngest person of those elected)
- Certified social worker
- Certified care worker
- Medical social worker
- Representative Director, Policy Informatics Center of LGBT
- First elected to the House of Representatives in 2017 (reelected in 2024)
- Member, HR Standing Committee on Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
- Director, HR Special Committee on Consumer Affairs
- Other:
- First openly LGBT member of the National Diet
