Heita Kawakatsu

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Heita Kawakatsu

Heita Kawakatsu ( Japanese 川 勝 平 太 , Kawakatsu Heita ; born August 16, 1948 ) is a Japanese scientist, politician and governor of Shizuoka Prefecture since 2009 .

Kawakatsu, a Waseda University graduate with a Ph.D from the University of Oxford , has been Professor in Waseda University's Faculty of Economics since 1990. From 1998 he taught at the inter-university International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto . Since the 1990s he was a member of various expert bodies in the government, 2006 Kawakatsu was a member of the kyōiku saisei kaigi ( 教育 再生 会議 , "Conference on the revitalization of education"), a body that advised the Abe cabinet on reforms of the education system. In 2007 he became rector of the Shizuoka Bunka Geijutsu Daigaku ( 静岡 文化 芸 術 大学 , "University of Culture and Art Shizuoka"), which he left in 2009 to run for the election for governor of Shizuoka. In his academic career he has published several books on economic and cultural history.

In the gubernatorial election on July 5, 2009, Kawakatsu, who was supported by the three opposition parties, the Democratic Party , Social Democratic Party and New People's Party , narrowly beat the former House of Representatives Yukiko Sakamoto , who was supported by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and Kōmeitō . During the election campaign he had promised to work to reduce the prefecture's 2.3 trillion yen (17 billion euros, as of July 2009) debts and to improve the education system. Kawakatsu succeeded Yoshinobu Ishikawa , who had resigned in June 2009 and was not up for re-election.

In the 2013 gubernatorial election , Kawakatsu was re-elected against an LDP-backed candidate and a communist with a two-thirds majority. In 2017 he prevailed against the Olympic medalist, sports and education politician Noriko Mizoguchi with around 60% of the votes .

Fonts

  • AJH Latham and Heita Kawakatsu (Eds.): Asia Pacific Dynamism 1550-2000. Routledge, London / New York 2000

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DPJ-backed candidate wins Shizuoka. Another blow for Aso and LDP. In: The Japan Times . July 6, 2009, accessed July 6, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Kawakatsu, Heita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 川 勝平 太 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1948