Haruko Arimura

Haruko Arimura
有村 治子
Official portrait, 2014
Minister of State for Government Revitalization
In office
3 August 2014  7 October 2015
Prime MinisterShinzo Abe
Preceded byTomomi Inada
Succeeded byTaro Kono
Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety
In office
3 August 2014  24 December 2014
Prime MinisterShinzo Abe
Preceded byMasako Mori
Succeeded byShunichi Yamaguchi
Member of the House of Councillors
Assumed office
29 July 2001
ConstituencyNational PR
Personal details
Born
Haruko Arimura

(1970-09-21) 21 September 1970
Ishikawa, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic
Children2
ParentKunihiro Arimura (有村 國宏)
RelativesKaieda Nobuyoshi (grand grand grand uncle)
EducationOmi Brotherhood High
Alma mater

Haruko Arimura (有村 治子, Arimura Haruko, born 21 September 1970) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. She is a descendant of Arimura Tsugizaemon, the ringleader of the Sakuradamon Incident, and Tōgō Heihachirō, the admiral of the Russo-Japanese War.

Arimura's views on comfort women, military prostitutes during World War II, have been criticized. Arimura supports the views of Japanologist J. Mark Ramseyer on comfort women.