Masanao Ozaki

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Masanao Ozaki ( Japanese 尾崎 正直 , Ozaki Masanao ; born September 14, 1967 in Kōchi , Kōchi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and was governor of Kōchi for three terms from 2007 to 2019.

Ozaki, a graduate of Tokyo University's Economics Faculty, joined the Treasury Department after graduating in 1991 . For this he worked from 1998 to 2001, among other things, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , in the Japanese embassy in Indonesia and most recently in the ministerial secretariat ( daijin kambō ), before he ended his official career in 2007 to replace Governor Daijirō Hashimoto (half-brother of the former LDP chairman Ryūtarō Hashimoto ) to run.

Ozaki won the election with the support of LDP , DPJ , Kōmeitō and SDP well ahead of his three competitors with around 61% of the vote. When he took office, he was the country's youngest governor.

In 2011 and 2015 , Ozaki was re-elected twice in a row for lack of opposing candidates without a vote. He did not run for the gubernatorial election in November 2019 and plans to switch to national politics as a candidate in the next election to the House of Representatives . Seiji Hamada , a former Jichi-shō / Sōmushō official and lieutenant governor of Osaka, was elected to succeed him as governor of Kōchi . The handover took place on December 6, 2019.

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  1. ^ "Association of the Prefectural Supervision Commissions " ( Todōfuken Senkyokanriiinkai Rengōkai ): Gubernatorial election result Kōchi
  2. ^ Kochi elects Ozaki as nation's youngest governor. In: The Japan Times . November 26, 2007, accessed June 13, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Hiroko Nakata: New Kochi governor hopes local produce lifts rural economy. In: The Japan Times . January 11, 2008, accessed June 13, 2011 .
  4. ↑ 尾崎 ・ 高 知 知事 が 4 選 不 出馬 次 期 衆院 選 に 立 候補 意欲 . In: nikkei.com . August 22, 2019. Retrieved December 16, 2019 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ 自 民 高 知 県 連 、 次 期 衆院 高 知 2 区 で 尾崎 知事 の 公認 擁 立 要 請 山 山 本 元 農 相 は 比例 転 出 検 討 . In: Mainichi Shimbun . November 1, 2019. Retrieved December 16, 2019 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Ozaki, Masanao
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 尾崎 正直 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician and governor of Kōchi
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Kōchi , Kōchi Prefecture