[2] She resigned during her third term, to run for election to the House of Councillors of Japan for Fukuoka Prefecture, as an independent.. She then ran in the 2000 Japanese general election in the third district of Fukuoka Prefecture, with the Democratic Party of Japan, but was defeated by Seiichi Ōta.

She joined several committees, including the one focused on issues related to Health, Labour and Social Affairs.

Fujita was then appointed head of the House of Representatives' Consumer and Health Affairs Committees in 2010.

She was then appointed in the Noda government in 2011, to the position of Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Labour and Social Affairs.

She also ran in the 2017 Japanese general election, this time under the nomination of the Constitutional Democratic Party, but without success.