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Kiyomi Tsujimoto

Kiyomi Tsujimoto (born 28 April 1960) was a Democratic Party of Japan member of the House of Representatives from 20 October 1996 to 28 March 2002 (preceding Kenta Matsunami) and from 12 September 2005.

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Kiyomi Tsujimoto was born in Oyodo, Nara Prefecture, Japan on 28 April 1960, and she co-founded the "Peace Boat" pacifist activist group and as a nonprofit coordinator before entering politics with the Japan Socialist Party. In 1996, Takako Doi asked Tsujimoto to assist her in increasing women's representation and grassroots activism in Japanese politics by running for the House of Representatives, and she succeeded, representing a district in Osaka. She became a vocal critic of the conservative LDP government, and she sat as an independent from 2004 to 2005, with the Social Democratic Party from 2005 to 2010, as an independent from 2010 to 2011, as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan from 2011 to 2017, and with the Constitutional Democratic Party from 2017. In 2002, a campaign expenses scandal led to her leaving the House and being jailed, but she was given a suspended sentence and resumed her political career in 2005.

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