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Kanako Otsuji

PEP · Politician

Kanako Otsuji is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	AKanako Otsuji · Kanako Ocudžiová · Kanako Otsuji · OTSUJI Kanako · Ocudzsi Kanako · 7 more...				[sources]
Alias	Kanako Ocudžiová · Kanako Otsuji · Otsuji Kanako · Канако Отсуджі · Оцудзи, Канако · 6 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Otsuji				[sources]
Birth date	1974-12-16				[sources]
Place of birth	Nara				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Kanako				[sources]
Last name	Otsuji				[sources]
Political association	Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan · Democratic Party of Japan				[sources]
Website	www.otsuji.club · facebook.com · otsuji.club · twitcasting.tv · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q456011				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Shūgiin (member, 2017-) · member of the House of Councillors (2013-2013) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan (2017-2021) · member of the Osaka Prefectural Assembly				[sources]
Education	Doshisha University Faculty of Commerce · Hyogo Prefectural Yumenodai High School (1990-1993) · Kōchi University				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-12	Last processed	2026-04-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Japanese politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Shūgiin	-	-
member of the House of Representatives of Japan	2017-10-22	2021-10-14

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,466

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,669

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories343,688

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata330,787

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions503,955

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: jp-shu-8b390213bcf65395feaaaf0536077384097a99b7 · evpo-88e6c3c2-8010-45d0-8771-49fcdaed8f7f

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