Megumi Kaneko
Megumi Kaneko is a Japanese politician. She served as a member of the House of Representatives for the Liberal Democratic Party between 2012 and 2017. She was defeated in the 2017 general election.Biography
Born in the village of Tsukigata, Kaneko was educated at Waseda University. She became a councillor for the Niigata City Council and then a member of the Niigata Prefectural Assembly. She was elected to the House of Representatives in the 2012 general elections, defeating the incumbent MP Makiko Kikuta of the Democratic Party of Japan. She was re-elected in the 2014 elections.
Kaneko is married to Kensuke Miyazaki, who served as an LDP MP for Kyoto until resigning in 2016 after it was revealed that he had had an affair whilst Kaneko was pregnant. Her husband's affair was regarded to have caused damage to her reputation among her constituents, leading to her defeat in 2017.
