Shiori Yamao

Shiori Yamao
山尾 志桜里
Yamao in 2025
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
14 December 2014  14 October 2021
Preceded byJunji Suzuki
Succeeded byJunji Suzuki
ConstituencyAichi 7th
In office
30 August 2009  16 November 2012
Preceded byJunji Suzuki
Succeeded byJunji Suzuki
ConstituencyAichi 7th
Personal details
Born (1974-07-24) 24 July 1974
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Political partyDPP (since 2020)
Other political
affiliations
DPJ (2009–2016)
DP (2016–2017)
Independent (2017; 2020)
CDP (2017–2020)
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
Websitewww.yamaoshiori.jp

Shiori Yamao (山尾 志桜里, Yamao Shiori, née Kanno) is a former member of the Japanese House of Representatives for the Aichi 7th district. Yamao was a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan from 2017 to 2020. She was the policy chief of the Democratic Party and a former liberal member of the Democratic Party of Japan. She has been elected to the Japanese House of Representatives thrice. She rose to prominence by criticizing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for not handling the issue of nursery school waiting lists.