Former Japanese sex doll Senri Morishita won her second proportional district in Miyagi Prefecture by “standing on the street” and her surprising reputation among the locals.

Although not a major defeat, the LDP won 191 seats and Kōmeitō won 24 seats, for a total of 215 seats, falling short of the 233-seat majority in the House of Representatives.

However, the opposition No. 1 party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), also gained only 148 seats, even though it significantly increased its number of seats, and the future of the political situation remains uncertain.

Against this backdrop, this election also saw the birth of a talented assemblyman. One of them is former gravure idol Senri Morishita (43), who won the LDP’s second place in the proportional Tohoku bloc.

Morishita ran in the 49th Lower House election in 2009 from the Miyagi 5th district, but was defeated by Jun Azumi (62) of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and lost the election. He was also unsuccessful in the runner-up position in the proportional Tohoku bloc, but he fought a good fight, garnering 61,410 votes. This time, he took his revenge in style.

The LDP has not learned its lesson, has it?

The history of celebrity councilors is long, and many councilors have been born in the past. The most recent are Akiko Ikuina (56) of the Liberal Democratic Party, who was elected to the House of Councillors in 2010, and Eriko Imai (41) of the LDP, who was first elected to the House of Councillors in 2004 and re-elected in the 2010 election. Other names that come to mind are Nakajo Kiyoshi (78) of The Japan Innovation Party, but all three have poor reputations as politicians. Again, this time it is against Morishita,

A second Eriko Imai was born from the proportional Tohoku region.

I thought they had learned their lesson with Eriko Imai and Akiko Uwaina, but I guess the LDP hasn’t learned their lesson yet. I’m stunned.

I thought they had learned their lesson with Akiko Usui, but the LDP hasn’t learned their lesson, has it? Not only Uwaina and Imai, but also other celebrities have come under fire in recent years, but the reason why celebrities are still included as candidates is because their name recognition is an advantage in elections. However, Morishita’s name recognition is not the only reason for his selection.

Nearly five years of “streetwalking

She is certainly better known than most people, but she is definitely a person of the past. Few people remember her from her gradol days. This time around, under the order of Koizumi Shinjiro, chairman of the election committee, to ‘increase the number of female candidates,’ Morishita, the sole proportional candidate, was the sole runner-up in the Tohoku bloc, which is a good thing.

I think this is not just because she is a celebrity, but because she was recognized for her performance in the last election, in which she won 60,000 votes even though she lost to Ms. Azumi, and for her steady activities by continuing to stand on the streets even after losing the election.

She has been standing on the streets for nearly five years.

She once said, “Even when it rained heavily for several days in a row, I stood on the street every day. When I was covering the event, some elderly people would say to me, ‘You are a beautiful woman from Tokyo, but you do a great job standing every day. When you see such an elderly person, even if you are a stranger at first, you gradually develop feelings for them.

I was working not for one or two years, but for quite a long time. There was an atmosphere of, ‘He’s working so hard, so I’ll vote for him. I think his strategy of appealing to the public by standing in the streets was successful.

Whether or not to “roll with the long straw.”

In a talk with Hiroyuki on the YouTube channel “Nikkei Tele-Tokyo University” in January 2010, Morishita was criticized for not having studied enough about “food self-sufficiency,” and was unable to give a clear answer. However, a reporter for a local newspaper commented on Morishita’s election,

Morishita’s lack of study was exposed a long time ago, and she has shown herself to be active. Unlike other celebrity council members, she was not invited to participate in the election, but started standing on the streets with the initial intention of ‘becoming a politician and helping people. At least, I think she is better than the other celebrity candidates, whose activities are not so clear.

He expressed his expectations.

The reaction of the local people after his election has not been bad. However, there are some concerns.

To be honest, I think it would have been better if he had started as a city councilor or prefectural assemblyman. I hope that he will be able to work on his own will in national politics and not get wrapped up in something long. I wonder if he can do that in the LDP or not. ……

We will have to wait and see what kind of work he will do in the future.