12 Facts About Mio Sugita

Mio Sugita is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan served as a member of the House of Representatives from 2012 to 2014, and again from 2017 to 2024.

Mio Sugita spoke out on a streamed program in 2015 that the LGBT community should not receive support from taxpayer's money, and repeated her claim in a monthly magazine piece in 2018.

Mio Sugita has since resigned from this position, because she had no intention of retracting some of her statements and to avoid disrupting administrative affairs, according to Kishida.

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

Mio Sugita worked as a Nishinomiya government employee and member of the Japan Restoration Party and the Next Generation Party before becoming a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.

Mio Sugita 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, Mio Sugita wrote an article in the Sankei Shimbun opposing increases in the number of nurseries.

In 2013, Mio Sugita joined fellow Japan Restoration Party members Yuzuru Nishida and Hiromu Nakamaru at the Study Group for Japan's Rebirth based in Los Angeles to request removal of a statue in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California.

Statue opponents, including Mio Sugita, said, "the women acted willingly" and that the numbers of them reported are inflated.

Mio Sugita laughed at an illustration with a woman apparently made to look like Ito and the words "failure at sleeping around for business".

In June 2015, Mio 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.

Mio Sugita has made a number of blog posts that were viewed by others as discriminatory towards Korean people.