The 2023 Japanese unified local elections were held across the country on 9 and 23 April 2023. In total 15,047 candidates were elected in 1,008 races with a high of 1,685 in Hokkaido and a low of 1 in

Maki Ikeda is a Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives as a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan from 2024 to 2026, and from 2017 to 2021.