Mio Sugita

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Mio Sugita Biography

Mio Sugita (杉田 水脈 Sugita Mio, born April 22, 1967) is a Japanese politician. Sugita is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and an incumbent member of the House of Representatives for the Proportional Chugoku Block.

Sugita graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University in 1990.

In 2013 Sugita joined fellow Japan Restoration Party members Yuzuru Nishida [ja] and Hiromu Nakamaru [ja] at the Study Group for Japan’s Rebirth based in Los Angeles to request removal of a statue in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California. The statue commemorates as many as 200,000 “comfort women” from Korea and other countries “forced into sex slavery by Japanese soldiers during World War II”. Statue opponents, including Sugita, said, “the women acted willingly” and that the numbers of them reported are inflated. The three politicians also stated that they wanted the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to retract an apology made in the 1990s to comfort women.

After unsuccessfully running in the 2014 election for the Hyogo Prefectural 6th District (garnering the fewest votes of any candidate) as a member of The Party for Japanese Kokoro, Sugita changed parties, joining the Liberal Democratic Party. She next ran for the Proportional Chugoku Block as an LDP member, and was made a representative of that Block by the LDP, without having to rely directly on a direct election.

In July 2016, Sugita wrote an article in the Sankei Shimbun opposing increases in the number of nurseries.

In 2015, Sugita made an appearance on the Japanese Culture Channel Sakura television program Hi Izuru Kuni Yori alongside music composer Koichi Sugiyama and fellow politician Kyoko Nakayama in which she claimed that there was no need for LGBT education in schools, dismissing concerns about high suicide rates among the community. In July 2018, Sugita wrote a magazine article that described LGBT couples as “unproductive” as they can not bear children and thus were not worth taxpayer investment. Her comments were denounced by various prominent Japanese politicians, including former Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama, with thousands of protesters gathering outside the headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Party on July 27, 2018 to demand her resignation from the party. Two months later, a group of LGBT politicians and civil rights leaders demanded that she account for the comments.

Sugita appeared in a 2018 BBC documentary “Japan’s Secret Shame” which detailed the alleged rape of Shiori Itō. In the interview, Sugita was quoted as saying, “With this case, there were clear errors on her part as a woman; drinking that much in front of a man and losing her memory. With things like this I think men are the ones who suffer significant damage.” Sugita also laughed at an illustration with a woman apparently made to look like Itō and the words “failure at sleeping around for business”.

A debate has been continuing in Japan on whether or not women should be allowed to retain their names after marriage, instead of being obliged to take on the name of their husband. While many women retain their maiden names professionally, it is mandatory for them to use their husband’s name on legal, financial or other official documents.

During a Diet session on January 23, 2020 when this issue was being debated, a female Diet member shouted out of turn (called a “yaji” in Japanese), “if you don’t want your husband’s name, you shouldn’t get married!” The Diet member was reported to have been Sugita. https://mainichi.jp/articles/20200123/k00/00m/010/295000c

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