11 Facts About Kimi Onoda

Kimi Onoda is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Kimi Onoda served as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Defense from 2022 to 2023 and is a member of the House of Councillors representing Okayama.

Kimi Onoda previously served as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Justice from 2020 to 2021 under the Suga Cabinet.

Kimi Onoda moved to Setouchi, Okayama Prefecture, Japan at the age of one.

Kimi Onoda defeated Kentaro Kuroishi, who was nominated by the Social Democratic Party and the Japanese Communist Party, and won the election as the successor to former House of Councillors chairman Satsuki Eda of the Democratic Party, who announced his retirement from politics.

Kimi Onoda was appointed Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Justice in the Suga Cabinet in September 2020.

On July 10,2022, Kimi Onoda won the 26th regular election for the House of Councillors by 180,000 votes, far exceeding the previous runner-up margin, with support from independent voters, despite the lack of support from the Komeito.

At the time of her birth, Kimi Onoda did not have Japanese citizenship due to Japan's nationality law, which adopted a paternal-preferential lineage system at the time, but she later became a Japanese citizen.

In October 2015, Kimi Onoda completed the procedures to select Japanese citizenship and her US citizenship in Japan, and ran for the House of Councillors in 2016.

Kimi Onoda apologized for her lack of knowledge and said that she was proceeding with the procedures because it turned out that she needed to apply to the US government to renounce her US citizenship.

Kimi Onoda then posted on her Facebook and Twitter pages the "Certificate of Loss of US Citizenship" received on May 2,2017.