Mitsuko Ishii

Mitsuko Ishii's resume does not look like one person's. Born in Tokyo in 1954, she worked as an actor, qualified as a nurse, studied at the University of Tokyo, and has sat in Japan's House of Councillors since 2016, elected from the national proportional block for the Japan Innovation Party. As a list it looks scattered. I do not think it is. Acting, nursing and legislating are all work about people in difficult moments, taken from different distances: the stage, the bedside, the statute book. Someone who has actually done the bedside version carries information into policy that no briefing supplies. What strikes me is the direction of travel. She left the visible, glamorous career for the slower and harder ones. Few people move that way on purpose.

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Name (English)

Mitsuko Ishii

Name (Japanese)

石井苗子

Reading

いしい みつこ

Born

February 25, 1954 (age 72)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

actor / nurse / politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Horse

University

University of Tokyo

Works summary

Appearances

96 (1981–2016)

By year

1981: 1, 1989: 1, 1990: 2, 1992: 1, 1993: 3, 1994: 5, 1995: 4, 1996: 3, 1997: 3, 1998: 3, 1999: 3, 2000: 4, 2001: 6, 2002: 1, 2004: 3, 2005: 5, 2006: 4, 2007: 5, 2008: 3, 2013: 1, 2014: 1, 2016: 1

Debut work

京都殺人案内

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://ishiimitsuko.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ishiimitsuko2022/
• Xhttps://x.com/ishii_ishin
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsuko%20Ishii
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%B3%E4%BA%95%E8%8B%97%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11585080

Tags

• Tokyo
• actor
• nurse
• politician

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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