Masanao Ozaki

Japanese politician

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Masanao Ozaki (尾崎 正直, Ozaki Masanao, born September 14, 1967 in Kōchi, Kōchi) is a Japanese politician.

Masanao Ozaki

尾崎 正直

Masanao Ozaki in 2022

Member of the House of Representatives

Incumbent

Assumed office
3 November 2021
Preceded by| Hajime Hirota
Constituency| Kōchi 2nd district
Governor of Kōchi Prefecture
In office
7 December 2007 – 6 December 2019
Preceded by| Daijiro Hashimoto
Succeeded by| Seiji Hamada
Personal details
Born|  (1967-09-14) September 14, 1967 (age 57)
Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
Political party| LDP (2020-present)
Other political
affiliations| Independent (before 2020)
Alma mater| University of Tokyo

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He graduated from University of Tokyo with the Bachelor of Economics degree in 1991 and a former bureaucrat of the Ministry of the Treasury (now the Ministry of Finance).[1] He worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2000. He worked as a secretary in the Embassy of Japan in Indonesia (firstly, Second Secretary and from 2001, First Secretary). He served as a secretary of the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary from 2006. He retired from the Ministry of Finance in October 2007.

He ran and was elected governor of Kochi Prefecture in 2007.

After serving as governor for three terms and 12 years, he announced his candidacy for the Lower House general election.[2] He ran for Kōchi 2nd district from the Liberal Democratic Party and was first elected to the House of Representatives after defeating Hajime Hirota, an incumbent member of the House of Representatives of the CDP.[3][4]

## References

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1. ^ 知事のプロフィール｜高知県庁ホームページ (in Japanese). Retrieved April 8, 2016.
2. ^ "高知の尾崎知事が退任 ３期１２年「挑戦でき誇り」". Sankei Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-01.
3. ^ "自民・尾崎正直氏が初当選、立民・広田一氏らを破る…高知２区". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-01.
4. ^ "高知、自民が2議席を独占 元防衛相の中谷元氏は11選". The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-01.

* 政治家情報 〜尾崎 正直〜 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved December 23, 2007.

## External links

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* Official website (in Japanese)

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Aichi: Hideaki Ōmura
Akita: Norihisa Satake
Aomori: Sōichirō Miyashita
Chiba: Toshihito Kumagai
Ehime: Tokihiro Nakamura
Fukui: Tatsuji Sugimoto
Fukuoka: Seitaro Hattori
Fukushima: Masao Uchibori
Gifu: Hajime Furuta
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: Shūhei Kishimoto
Yamagata: Mieko Yoshimura
Yamaguchi: Tsugumasa Muraoka
Yamanashi: Kotaro Nagasaki

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