Hideaki Ōmura

Japanese politician

Hideaki Ōmura

大村 秀章

Official portrait, 2018

Governor of Aichi Prefecture

Incumbent

Assumed office
15 February 2011
Preceded by| Masaaki Kanda
Member of House of Representatives
In office
20 October 1996 – 14 January 2011
Preceded by| Constituency established
Succeeded by| Yoshio Mochizuki
Constituency| Tōkai PR (1996–2000; 2009–2011)
Aichi 13th (2000–2009)
Personal details
Born|  (1960-03-09) 9 March 1960 (age 65)
Hekinan, Aichi, Japan
Political party| Independent (since 2011)
Other political
affiliations| Liberal Democratic (before 2011)
Children| 4
Alma mater| University of Tokyo
Website| Official website

Hideaki Ōmura (大村 秀章, Ōmura Hideaki; born 9 March 1960) is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Aichi Prefecture and a former member of the House of Representatives.

## Early life and education

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He was born on 9 March 1960 in Hekinan, Aichi Prefecture to a father who works as a carpenter and her mother who is a farmer. He graduated in University of Tokyo with a degree on law.[1][2]

## Career

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Ōmura with Takashi Kawamura and Shinzo Abe (at the Prime Minister's Official Residence on October 21, 2016)

In 1982, He joined the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries after serving as Tokushima City Manager, Agricultural Cooperative Division, and Planning Division Assistant Director.

In 1995, He was Liberal Democratic Party Aichi Prefecture 13th constituency branch chief. A year later, he was elected as the House of Representatives member for the first time, he held the position for five terms until 2011.

Omura giving a speech in front of Inuyama Station in 2023

He later run and won for governor of Aichi Prefecture on the 2011 gubernatorial election. He held the position until the present.[2][3][1]

## Personal life

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He is married and has four children.[2]

## References

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1. ^ a b "プロフィール｜大村ひであき公式WEBサイト". ohmura-hideaki.jp. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
2. ^ a b c Sugito, Takahiro (17 November 2015). "候補者はこんな人". Chunichi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 21 January 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
3. ^ 政治家情報 〜大村 秀章〜. JANJAN (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 3 December 2007. Retrieved 20 October 2007.

## External links

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* Official website in Japanese.

Preceded by

Masaaki Kanda

|  Governor of Aichi Prefecture
2011–present  | Incumbent

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Current governors of Japanese prefectures (list)

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Aichi: Hideaki Ōmura
Akita: Kenta Suzuki
Aomori: Sōichirō Miyashita
Chiba: Toshihito Kumagai
Ehime: Tokihiro Nakamura
Fukui: Tatsuji Sugimoto
Fukuoka: Seitaro Hattori
Fukushima: Masao Uchibori
Gifu: Yoshihide Esaki
Gunma: Ichita Yamamoto
Hiroshima: Hidehiko Yuzaki
Hokkaidō: Naomichi Suzuki

Hyōgo: Motohiko Saitō
Ibaraki: Kazuhiko Ōigawa
Ishikawa: Hiroshi Hase
Iwate: Takuya Tasso
Kagawa: Toyohito Ikeda
Kagoshima: Kōichi Shiota
Kanagawa: Yūji Kuroiwa
Kōchi: Seiji Hamada
Kumamoto: Takashi Kimura
Kyoto: Takatoshi Nishiwaki
Mie: Katsuyuki Ichimi
Miyagi: Yoshihiro Murai

Miyazaki: Shunji Kōno
Nagano: Shuichi Abe
Nagasaki: Kengo Oishi
Nara: Makoto Yamashita
Niigata: Hideyo Hanazumi
Ōita: Kiichiro Satō
Okayama: Ryuta Ibaragi
Okinawa: Denny Tamaki
Osaka: Hirofumi Yoshimura
Saga: Yoshinori Yamaguchi
Saitama: Motohiro Ōno
Shiga: Taizō Mikazuki

Shimane: Tatsuya Maruyama
Shizuoka: Yasutomo Suzuki
Tochigi: Tomikazu Fukuda
Tokushima: Masazumi Gotoda
Tokyo: Yuriko Koike
Tottori: Shinji Hirai
Toyama: Hachiro Nitta
Wakayama: Izumi Miyazaki
Yamagata: Mieko Yoshimura
Yamaguchi: Tsugumasa Muraoka
Yamanashi: Kotaro Nagasaki

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