عارفية إري Arfiya Eri

The native form of this Japanese name is Eri Arfiya. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals. In the Uyghur personal name, Ablet is a patronymic, not a surname.

Arfiya Eri
英利アルフィヤ
Official portrait, 2022
Member of the House of Representatives
الحالي
تولى المنصب 23 April 2023
سبقه	Kentaro Sonoura
الدائرة الانتخابية	Chiba 5th (2023–2024) Southern Kanto PR (2024–present)
تفاصيل شخصية
وُلِد	16 أكتوبر 1988 Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
الجنسية	Japan
الحزب	Liberal Democratic
المدرسة الأم	Georgetown University
الموقع الإلكتروني	eri-arfiya.jp
Japanese name
Kanji	英利 アルフィヤ
Hiragana	えり あるふぃあ
النقحرة الرومنة Eri Arufiya
Chinese name
الصينية المبسطة	英利·阿丽菲亚
الصينية التقليدية	英利·阿麗菲亞
النقحرة المندرينية الفصحى هان‌يو پن‌ين Yīnglì Ālìfēiyà
Uyghur name
Uyghur	ئارفىيە ئابلەت
النقحرة Latin Yëziqi Arfiye Ablet SASM/GNC Arfiyä Ablät
أوزبكية name
أوزبكية	Arfiya Ablat / Арфия Аблат

Arfiya Eri (born 16 October 1988), also known by her Uyghur name Arfiye Ablet, is a Japanese politician of Uyghur and Uzbek descent. She is a member of the House of Representatives for the Liberal Democratic Party.

 السيرة

 النشأة والتعليم

She was born to a Uyghur father and Uzbek mother in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. She moved to Shanghai at age 10 and Guangzhou at age 11 due to her father's work relocation, and attended the Shanghai American School and the American International School of Guangzhou, where she was elected president of the student body. She graduated from Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and Graduate School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C.

 Political career

Eri previously spent time as an official for the Bank of Japan and the United Nations.

She ran unsuccessfully as an LDP candidate in the 2022 Japanese House of Councillors election. In April 2023, she was elected to the Japanese House of Representatives in a by-election for Chiba's 5th district.

Eri supported fellow Georgetown alumni Taro Kono, the then Minister for Digital Transformation, in the 2024 LDP presidential election, which Shigeru Ishiba ultimately won. She was appointed Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs as part of Ishiba's cabinet in November 2024.

 الحياة الشخصية

عارفية إري، 2018

Eri's first language is Japanese, but she is also able to communicate in English, Chinese, Uzbek, Turkish and Uyghur with considerable fluency, along with a basic level of proficiency in Arabic.

 المواقف السياسية

She has described her policies as in line with most mainstream LDP positions. She has been vocal about her support for initiatives to promote gender equality in Japan. Eri has noted that young female politicians are rare in Japan, saying in July 2022, when she was 33 years old: "We need better representation – we need young people to feel that they are being represented, that the future is in their hands. Right now, a lot of antagonism comes from the fact that most of the politicians look the same to them."

Eri is strongly anti-authoritarian, a position she says is shaped by China's human rights abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang.