was a Japanese politician. Fujita was born and brought up in

Hiroshima City is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui ha ...

. He graduated from

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in 1944. Masaaki Fujita - Kotobank
/ref> During his 30-year political career, he served in some important posts such as the Director General of Okinawa Development Agency (1976-1977) and the President of the

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(1986-1988). He received the Grand Cordon of the

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in 1992.

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