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 The issue of politics and money has spread to local assembly members, and here in Kyoto, there has been a lot of talk recently about &#8220;city assembly members who are too beautiful,&#8221; says a source in the political world in Kyoto.
 This is what a source in Kyoto&#8217;s political circles told us.
 ＜Yamashu, a Kyoto city council member of the Liberal Democratic Party, routinely uses his own car for &#8220;visitors&#8221; and has obtained a garage permit.
 The following article appeared in the Kyoto Shimbun on November 30. It reported that Maiko Yamashu, 41, a member of the Kyoto City Council of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), parks her own car in a parking lot she rents with funds from her political activity fund.
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 The article stated that the garage certificate for the private car was also &#8220;for visitors,&#8221; raising the issue of personal use of political activity funds.
 This news was also broadcast by the local Kyoto Broadcasting Corporation, and this month&#8217;s &#8220;NEWS POST SEVEN&#8221; reported that Yamashu was suspected of &#8220;election bribery.
 She is a madonna to the local political and business circles, so she is attracting even more attention.
 What kind of person is this Yamashu City Council member?
 According to her website, she attended school in her hometown of Kyoto from elementary school through high school, and &#8220;after graduating from Osaka Sangyo University, she worked for JAL and other private companies.
 It also says that she ran for Kyoto City Councilor for the first time in 2011, but was unsuccessful in her runner-up position, and that she ran again for Kyoto City Councilor in 2015, winning the election for the first time.
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 A political insider said, &#8220;Originally, she was a member of a local political party.
 She was originally a city councilor for the Kyoto Party, a regional political party, but left the party in 2016. The Kyoto Party expelled her on the grounds that it was a breach of trust to voters to leave the party after running for office twice as an official candidate. She then joined the LDP with the backing of the office of her local Kyoto councilor, Shoji Nishida. Some people assume from the profile she has posted and her looks that she was a CA for JAL before becoming a city councilor, but in fact she worked for a JAL affiliate (when interviewed by this magazine, Yamashu replied, &#8220;I worked for a JAL group company called JAL Sky Osaka Co.) After that, I worked for a real estate leasing company.&#8221;
 In response to the Kyoto Shimbun report, Yamashu wrote on his Facebook page
 ＜The title of the Kyoto Shimbun report is &#8220;Private car in garage for political activity expenses,&#8221; which itself is wrong and factually incorrect to begin with. Since the settlement of political activity expenses is made at the end of the fiscal year, it is not a garage for political activity expenses, but a parking lot under my personal contract, so whether or not I park my private car there is no problem at all.
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 ＜I am currently responding to the Kyoto Shimbun by sending a letter of protest through my lawyer regarding the defamation. 
 ＜I have no idea what the hell this article is trying to say! ＞I have no idea what the article is trying to say!
 He took a picture of the entire page of the Kyoto Shimbun and posted it on his Facebook page, saying, &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter.
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" I have no idea what the article is trying to say! It&#39;s free love."></div>
<figure id="attachment_282470" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-282470" style="width: 870px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="5398d02f"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/12/e280a116b1ac56788ba6ac3a5807941b.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-282470" class="wp-caption-text">Election poster for the Yamashu City Council. She is known as a &#8220;beautiful city councilor.</figcaption></figure>
 A friend of Yamashu&#8217;s told us that it was not only the issue of her &#8220;politics and money&#8221; that caught the attention of those concerned.
 The Kyoto Shimbun article featured a photo of her favorite car, a white Mercedes, but she loves foreign cars, and before the white Mercedes, she drove a red Mercedes. For work, she leases an Italian car, a Fiat. It is tempting to say to her, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you lease a Fiat with your political activity fund? Who is she dating now?
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 According to this acquaintance, she is single. According to the acquaintance, she is single. She grew up in a single-mother home, but her mother has already passed away. A business insider in Kyoto further revealed, &#8220;She has a free-spirited personality.
 She has a free-spirited personality and drinks heavily. She is nicknamed &#8220;Kyoto&#8217;s female Takajin,&#8221; and no matter what day the Diet is in session, she goes out to Gion and drinks until she is drunk and stoned, whether it is shochu, highballs, or tequila. Perhaps it is because of her dynamic personality that her past boyfriends have all been unique individuals. In Kyoto A, the manager of a long-established dyeing and weaving store in Kyoto, a painter, the young master of a long-established inn, and a city councilor. Moreover, many of them are married. Among them, she got into trouble with Mr. A. Several years ago, she and Mr. A got into a big fight late at night and were questioned at the Fushimi police station. When one acquaintance accused her of adultery, he said, &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter. I&#8217;m single, and it&#8217;s a free love affair. On the contrary, she talked openly about her love life, saying, &#8220;I wake up when I smell spit when I kiss,&#8221; and often carried frisks.
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 When we requested an interview with Mr. Yamashu, he responded in writing as follows.
 &#8220;I attended a dinner party for a large group of people at a restaurant in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City. During the dinner party, a discussion with Mr. A about current affairs and other issues became heated, and I felt that he was in danger of violence, so I reported the matter to the Fushimi Police Station. It was not a gender-related problem at all. （There are no facts to support my claim that I had an affair with another painter or a male member of the city council.
 When we asked Ms. A for an interview, she responded as follows.
 It is true that I had an argument with Mr. Yamashu when we were having dinner in Gion, and the police were dispatched to the scene, so we both went to the police station. It wasn&#8217;t a particularly big incident or anything like that, and we left that day after talking with the police. After that, we gradually drifted apart and have not been in contact for a long time now. (Were you involved in an affair?) No, no, nothing like that.
 The Kyoto Shimbun report seems to have angered Yamashu, but a political reporter in Osaka had this to say.
 In fact, in addition to the Kyoto Shimbun, there are several other media outlets that have expressed interest in her &#8220;politics and money&#8221; issue. In addition to the parking lot issue reported this time and the election bribery allegations, some of them are covering her office expenses, which are paid out of her political activity fund, in detail, such as the actual operation of the office and the attendance of her staff. As if to deter the media, she is appealing to other media outlets about her protest to the Kyoto Shimbun.
 Because she is &#8220;too beautiful,&#8221; it seems that not only the issue of politics and money, but also political and business circles are watching her movements with keen interest.

 Yoshinori Kako (Journalist)

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