KANEKO Emi

• Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Tohoku Bloc (proportional representation), elected　five times


• In-House Group: Centrist Reform Alliance
• Born: July 1965, Hobara (now part of Date), Fukushima
• Education:
• Faculty of Letters, Hosei University, Japan
• Master's degree, California State University, USA
• Master's degree, Fukushima University, Japan

• Career:
• Member, House of Councillors (one term)


• Member, Hobara Town Council
• Member, Date City Council
• Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Cabinet Office
• Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Reconstruction
• Vice Secretary-General, Democratic Party of Japan
• Senior Deputy Chairperson, Policy Research Committee, Democratic Party
• Chairperson, Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake Division, Policy Research Committee, Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP)
• Regular Member, CDP Tohoku Bloc
• Deputy Director-General, CDP Executive office
• Senior Deputy Chairperson, CDP Business & Organizations Liaison Committee
• Managing Director, CDP Office for Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake
• CDP Next Cabinet Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
• Chairperson, Federation of CDP Fukushima Prefecture Branches
• Chairperson, CDP Fukushima Prefecture 1st Electoral District Branch
• Director, HR Standing Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
• Director, HR Special Committee on Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Investigation of Nuclear Power Issues