Arfiya Eri stands out in the Liberal Democratic Party, which is largely dominated by elderly men who have specific socioeconomic backgrounds and political pedigrees.
The 34-year-old is running as a candidate for the LDP in Chiba’s fifth district in the next Lower House by-elections on April 23.
A native of Kitakyushu, a city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Eri has a mixed heritage, with a Uyghur father and an Uzbek mother. She became a Japanese citizen in 1999 when she was 10 years old.
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