Maiko Tajima

Maiko Tajima sits in Japan's House of Councillors, born in 1976, educated at the University of Oxford. That last detail is the one everyone reaches for, and I want to resist the easy reading of it. A degree like that is a passport out of Japanese domestic politics as much as into it, so choosing the Diet means choosing committee rooms, constituency work and a schedule that grinds. Before politics she worked for an accounting firm and then the UN World Food Programme, and she comes from Ota, Tokyo. What I will say is that politicians are not usefully judged by their credentials or their star signs. The measure is what actually moves during a term in office, and in her case that story is still being written.

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Name (English)

Maiko Tajima

Name (Japanese)

田島麻衣子

Reading

たじま まいこ

Born

December 20, 1976 (age 49)

Occupation

politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dragon

University

University of Oxford

• Official sitehttps://www.maiko-tajima.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/maiko_tajima/
• Xhttps://x.com/maiko_tajima
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiko%20Tajima
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E5%B3%B6%E9%BA%BB%E8%A1%A3%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65557014

Tags

• politician

Last updated

November 2, 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.