Asahiko Mihara

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Preceded byRintarō Ogata
Succeeded byRintarō Ogata
ConstituencyFukuoka 9th
ConstituencyKyushu PR
Asahiko Mihara
三原 朝彦
Mihara in 2020
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
19 December 2012  14 October 2021
Preceded byRintarō Ogata
Succeeded byRintarō Ogata
ConstituencyFukuoka 9th
In office
21 October 2003  21 July 2009
ConstituencyKyushu PR
In office
8 July 1986  27 September 1996
Preceded byAsao Mihara
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
ConstituencyFukuoka 2nd
Personal details
Born (1947-05-23) 23 May 1947 (age 78)
PartyLiberal Democratic
Other political
affiliations
NPS (1993–1997)
Parent
Alma materHitotsubashi University
Carleton University

Asahiko Mihara (三原 朝彦, Mihara Asahiko; born 23 May 1947) is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Onga, Fukuoka, he attended Hitotsubashi University and Dag Hammarskjöld College[1] in the United States, and received a master's degree from Carleton University in Canada. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1986. He participated in the formation of the New Party Sakigake in 1993 but later returned to the LDP. He was defeated in the 2009 election by DPJ candidate Rintaro Ogata.

Representative Mihara was re-elected in 2012 to the Fukuoka Prefectural 9th district. He is a member of the Party Ethics and Fundamental National Policies Committees as well as the Director of the Special Committee on Promotion of Science and Technology, and Innovation.

In 2004, Mihara received political donations of ¥ 300,000 from organizations related to the Unification Church.[2]

Mihara is a member of the Diet groups of Nippon Kaigi, an openly revisionist lobby,[3] and Shintō Seiji Renmei, a fundamentalist Shintō lobby.

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