Education
Hosei University.
上川 あや
Hosei University.
She was elected in April 2003. Kamikawa, then a 35-year-old writer, submitted her election application papers with a blank space for "sexual"
Despite an announcement that the government would continue to consider her male officially, she stated that she would work as a woman. Her platform was to improve rights for women, children, the elderly, the handicapped, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
In April 2007, she was re-elected to her second term, placing second of 71 candidates running for 52 in the same ward assembly.
She is the only openly transgender official in Japan at this point.
