Kensuke Miyazaki

Kensuke Miyazaki
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 2012–2016
Preceded by	Kenta Izumi
Constituency	Kyoto 3
Personal details
Born	(1981-01-17) 17 January 1981 Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Ayuko Kato (2006–09) Megumi Kaneko (2015–)

Kensuke Miyazaki (Template:Lang-ja, born 17 January 1981) is a Japanese politician. He served as a member of the House of Representatives for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) between 2012 and 2016.

Biography

Born in Tokyo, Miyazaki was educated at Waseda University. He went on to work at companies in the insurance and human resources industries. He was elected to the House of Representatives in the 2012 general elections, defeating the incumbent MP Kenta Izumi of the Democratic Party of Japan. He was re-elected in the 2014 elections.

In 2006 he married Ayuko Kato, but the couple divorced in 2009. Kato was later elected as an MP for the LDP in 2014. In 2015 he married another LDP MP, Megumi Kaneko. In January 2016 he became the first MP in Japan to request paternity leave. However, shortly before Kaneko was due to give birth to the couple's child, it was revealed he had had an affair whilst she was pregnant. He subsequently resigned as an MP.

Scandal

In February 2016 Mr. Kensuke Miyazaki was about to become Japan’s first politician to take paternity leave, when his wife, fellow lower house MP Megumi Kaneko, was about to give birth their first child japanese sewspapers published a photo of Mr Miyazaki and a woman, said to be a bikini model and professional kimono dresser, leaving his home in Kyoto. The photo was taken days before his wife gave birth on 5 February. On February the 12th Miyazaki, confirmed he had an affair and said he is stepping down as MP for Kyoto prefecture.

External links

• Official website