Hodaka Maruyama

I find Hodaka Maruyama genuinely fascinating in that way only people who refuse to play it safe can be. Here's a guy from Sakai, Osaka, who climbed all the way through the University of Tokyo and into the bureaucracy, then jumped into politics, which on paper screams cautious, credentialed insider. But that's not the read I get at all. In 2019, on a visit to the disputed island of Kunashiri, he suggested Japan might have to take the islands back by war; Ishin expelled him and the House of Representatives censured him unanimously. He moved to the NHK party as deputy leader and left the Diet in 2021. Combustible is one word for it; reckless is another.

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Hodaka Maruyama is a Japanese politician born on January 10, 1984, in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from the University of Tokyo before entering public life as a politician. Elected to the House of Representatives in 2012 for Nippon Ishin no Kai, he was expelled from the party in 2019 and censured by the House after remarks suggesting Japan should wage war with Russia, then became deputy leader of the NHK party. He left the Diet in 2021. He has an official website and social media accounts.

Name (English)

Hodaka Maruyama

Name (Japanese)

丸山穂高

Reading

まるやま ほだか

Born

January 10, 1984 (age 42)

Origin

Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rat

University

University of Tokyo

• Official sitehttps://www.h-maruyama.jp/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hodakamaruyama/
• Xhttps://x.com/maruyamahodaka
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%B8%E5%B1%B1%E7%A9%82%E9%AB%98
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11368259

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• Politician

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.