Akiko Kurabayashi

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Akiko Kurabayashi giving a speech in Kyoto City on July 14, 2019

Akiko Kurabayashi (Japanese: 倉林 明子, born 3 December 1960 in Fukushima Prefecture) is a member of the Japanese House of Councillors and member of the Japanese Communist Party. She was a former nurse. She has previously served on the Kyoto Prefectural Assembly, to which she was elected in 1994, and on the , to which she served five terms, starting with her election to the assembly in 1995. Kurabayashi was elected to her position in the National Diet in 2013.^[1]

Kurabayashi is opposed to the pension reform bill that was enacted in 2016, saying that the reduced pension benefits would weight heavily on the Japanese public.^[2] She is also opposed to allowing non-Japanese trainees to work in the Japanese nursing industry, saying that the plan would not permanently address the chronic labour shortage in Japan's nursing industry.^[3]

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