Asahiko Mihara

Asahiko Mihara
三原 朝彦
Mihara in 2020
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 19 December 2012 – 14 October 2021
Preceded by	Rintarō Ogata
Succeeded by	Rintarō Ogata
Constituency	Fukuoka 9th
In office 21 October 2003 – 21 July 2009
Constituency	Kyushu PR
In office 8 July 1986 – 27 September 1996
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	Fukuoka 2nd
Personal details
Born	(1947-05-23) 23 May 1947 Onga, Fukuoka, Japan
Parent	Asao Mihara (father)
Alma mater	Hitotsubashi University Carleton University

Asahiko Mihara (三原 朝彦, Mihara Asahiko, born May 23, 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 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.

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

References

• 政治家情報 〜三原朝彦〜 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2007-12-03. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
• "LDP Member Profiles". jimin.jp. LDP. Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2011-11-13.

External links

• Official website Archived 2007-10-09 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)