| Ayuko Kato | |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Office: | Minister of State for Special Missions |
| Primeminister: | Fumio Kishida |
| Term Start: | 13 September 2023 |
| Term End: | 1 October 2024 |
| Predecessor: | Masanobu Ogura |
| Successor: | Junko Mihara |
| Office1: | Member of the House of Representatives |
| Constituency1: | Yamagata 3rd |
| Term Start1: | 16 December 2014 |
| Predecessor1: | Juichi Abe |
| Birth Date: | 19 April 1979 |
| Birth Place: | Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan |
| Party: | Liberal Democratic |
| Alma Mater: | Keio University |
| Father: | Koichi Kato |
| Children: | 2 |
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) who is the current member of the House of Representatives for Yamagata 3rd district.[1] She served as Minister of State in the Kishida Cabinet.
Kato graduated from Keio University Faculty of Law in 2003 and from the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University in 2008.[2] Kato was elected in the 2014 Japanese general election to the same seat as her father Koichi Kato, a longtime member of the House of Representatives for Yamagata Prefecture who had lost the seat in the 2012 general election.[3] [4] From 2006 to 2009, Kato was married to LDP politician Kensuke Miyazaki, who later served as member for Kyoto 3rd district from 2012 to 2016.
