Motohiro Ōno

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Motohiro Ōno (2012)

Motohiro Ōno ( Japanese 大野 元 裕 , Ōno Motohiro ; born November 12, 1963 in Kawaguchi , Saitama Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( DPJ → DFP → DVP → independent) and has been governor of Saitama Prefecture since 2019 . Before that, he was a member of the Sangiin , the upper house of the national parliament, from 2010 to 2019 .

Life

Ōno was born in Kawaguchi on November 12, 1963 as the grandson of LDP politician Motoyoshi Ōno. His grandfather was mayor of Kawaguchi from 1957 to 1972 and from 1976 to 1981. Motohiro Ōno studied political science at Keiō University until 1987 and then earned  a master's degree in international relations at the International University of Japan in 1989 . In the same year he joined the Foreign Ministry  and became a technical investigator in the Japanese embassy in Iraq ; he held this position in the following years in various embassies in the Middle East . In addition, he was a lecturer at the humanities faculties of the Universities of Tokyo and Aoyama as well as a commentator at the radio company Nippon Hōsō .

In 2010 he switched to politics and was elected as a candidate for the ruling Democratic Party (DPJ) in the 2010 upper house election in the constituency of Saitama Prefecture (then six seats, three for election), just ahead of the DPJ incumbent Chiyako Shimada in third place (Ōno 17.5%; Shimada 17.1%). In October 2010 he was appointed "Parliamentary State Secretary" in the Ministry of Defense and the Cabinet Office in the Noda cabinet, which was reorganized for the third time . Within the party, he participated in the founding of the conservative faction Kokujiku no Kai ( 国 軸 の 会 , also "Nagashima Group") of Akihisa Nagashima in 2014 . In the election for the DPJ party seat in 2015 , he supported Gōshi Hosono as a member of the Nagashima group , who, however, was narrowly  defeated by Katsuya Okada . In the upper house elections in 2016 , Ōno was re-elected to second place in Saitama as a candidate for the Democratic Progressive Party (DFP), the successor to the DPJ. In May 2018, he joined the Democratic People's Party (DVP), which was created through the merger of the DFP and the Party of Hope .

In June 2019 he left the DVP and announced that he would run as an independent in the gubernatorial election in Saitama in August of that year . Incumbent Kiyoshi Ueda announced that he would not run for a fifth term and would support Ōno. Ōno won the election, contrary to previous polls in which Aoshima led slightly, with the support of the national center-left opposition ( KDP , DVP, SDP ) relatively narrowly against the LDP- Kōmeitō -backed candidate Kenta Aoshima and three other candidates (Ōno 47, 9%; Aoshima 44.9%). He officially assumed the governorship on August 31, 2019.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 埼 玉 県 知事 選 青島 氏 を 大野 氏 猛追 情勢 調査 . In: Mainichi Shimbun . August 19, 2019. Retrieved September 7, 2019 (Japanese).
  2. ^ Opposition picks up Saitama governorship. In: The Japan News . August 26, 2019, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 初登 庁 前 に 初 仕事 埼 玉 県 の 大野 新知 事 、 防災 訓練 視察 . In: Nihon Keizai Shimbun . August 31, 2019. Retrieved September 7, 2019 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Ōno, Motohiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 大野 元 裕 (Japanese, Kanji); お お の も と ひ ろ (Japanese, Hiragana)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Kawaguchi