Akiko C. Bedor Sugiyama is a Palauan politician, and widow of Palauan senator Peter Sugiyama.
[1] As late as 1995, she was the only woman who had ever been elected to the Palau National Congress.
[2] In 2005, she was elected governor of Ngardmau in a special election after the impeachment of Schwartz Tudong over the misuse of public funds.
[3] Along with Vicky Kanai of Airai, she was the first woman to be elected governor of any of the states of Palau.
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