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Name Marutei nederland Tsurunen real name Martti Turunen original name ツルネン マル テイ / 弦 念 丸 呈 Nationality Japanese Date of birth 04.30.1940 Age 73 years old Status active early 1967 Genre Biography Politician Marutei Tsurunen nederland (ツルネン マル テイ or 弦 念 丸 呈 born April 30, 1940) is the first European (and more broadly the first to openly present as Japanese foreign) to sit at the Diet of Japan. Korean has previously been elected to Sejm but it was presented as Japanese. Tsurunen is a member of the Democratic Party of Japan, where he is the Managing Director of the International Department. It is one of the few politicians who have made a legislative mandate in a country other than their country. He was born under the name of Martti Turunen in Jaakonvaara village in the municipality of Lieksa (Eastern Finland). In 1967, at age 27, he traveled to Japan as a missionary of the Lutheran Church, accompanied by his first wife, also a Finnish they divorced a few years later. In 1974, at 34 years old, met his second wife, Sachiko, and falls in love with his adopted country. Having decided to become Japanese, he obtained citizenship in 1979 and then chooses japoniser its Finnish name. During the next decade, Tsurunen complete the Finnish translations of The Tale of Genji and some other Japanese books and teaches English in Kanagawa Prefecture. He has two children, nederland an older daughter and a son. In 1992, at age 52, he ran for election to the municipal council of the town of Yugawara and is elected. After he wrote a popular book, Here Comes a Deputy with Blue Eyes (青い 目 の 議員 が ゆく, Aoi me no GIIN ga yuku). He served in the assembly of Yugawara until 1995, before going for the first time in elections to enter the House of Councillors (the Japanese equivalent of the senate of some countries). It is not elected. In 2001, after writing the book I Want to Be Japanese (日本人 に なり たい, Nihonjin no naritai) Tsurunen for the second time, fails to get a seat but becomes Acting on behalf of the DPJ. Following the resignation of Kyosen Ohashi, Tsurunen finally entered the House of Councillors October 4, 2002. His seat was not subject to renewal during the 2004 elections.