Mai Ohara
{{Short description|Japanese politician (born 1974)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix =
| name =
| office = Member of the House of Representatives of Japan
| term_start = August 30, 2009
| term_end = November 16, 2012
| constituency = Kyoto 5th district
| predecessor =
| successor =
| office2 = Member of the Kyoto Prefectural Assembly
| term_start2 = 2015
| term_end2 =
| constituency2 = Maizuru
| predecessor2 =
| successor2 =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|7|10}}
| birth_place = Maizuru, Japan
| nationality = Japanese
| party = Liberal Democratic Party of Japan; later independent
| alma_mater = Kwansei Gakuin University
Kyoto University
| website = http://oharamai.jp
| allegiance = Japan
| branch = Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
}}
{{nihongo|Mai Ohara|小原 舞|Ohara Mai|extra=born July 10, 1974}} is a Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives of Japan.{{cite web |url=http://oharamai.jp/profile.html |title=Profile of Mai Ohara |website=oharamai.jp |language=ja |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130304134925/http://oharamai.jp/profile.html |archive-date=4 March 2013}}
Biography
Born in Maizuru, Ohara joined the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force after graduating from high school, and graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University in 1999. She earned a master's degree from Kyoto University in 2007.
In 2009, she was elected to the House of Representatives as a Liberal Democratic Party representative of Kyoto 5th district. On June 26, 2012, during a vote on social security and integrated tax reform legislation, she was one of eleven representatives who urged Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to vote against the opposing Democratic Party representatives.{{cite news |date= July 10, 2012 |title= 民主党：亀裂は深まるばかり 処分問題が本格化も|url= http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20120628k0000m010076000c.html|work= Mainichi Shimbun|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120701000515/http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20120628k0000m010076000c.html|url-status=dead|archive-date= July 1, 2012|access-date= July 11, 2015}}
In 2015, she was elected to the Kyoto Prefectural Assembly for Maizuru; she is the assembly's first female member to represent that constituency. In 2019, she placed second place in the election with 0,836, with Masayoshi Ikeda ahead of her.{{cite web |url=https://www.pref.kyoto.jp/senkyo/documents/31fugikaihyou0408shusei.pdf |title=???? |language=ja |website=pref.kyoto.jp}}
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Category:Women members of the House of Representatives (Japan)
Category:Kyoto University alumni
Category:Kwansei Gakuin University alumni
Category:Members of the Kyoto Prefectural Assembly
Category:21st-century Japanese women politicians
Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2009–2012
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