is a Japanese politician and a current member of the
House of Councillors
The is the upper house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Representatives is the lower house. The House of Councillors is the successor to the pre-war House of Peers. If the two houses disagree on matters of the budget, treaties, ...
for the
Kanagawa at-large district in the
Diet of Japan
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. A native of
Kawasaki, Kanagawa
is a Cities of Japan, city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the main cities of Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area. It is the second most populated city in Kanagawa Prefecture after Yokohama, and the List of cities in Japan, eight ...
and graduate of
Keio University
, mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword
, type = Private research coeducational higher education institution
, established = 1858
, founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa
, endowmen ...
with a
bachelor's degree
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in
Political Science
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, he has previously served in the assembly of Kanagawa Prefecture for two terms from 1987 to 1993, in the
House of Representatives
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in the Diet for three terms from 1993 to 2003 and as the
governor
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of
Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kana ...
from 2003 until 2011. He was elected to the House of Councillors in 2013 as a member of
Your Party
is a Japanese parliamentary caucus consisting of Yoshimi Watanabe and Takashi Tachibana, later Satoshi Hamada after Tachibana forfeited his seat, in the House of Councillors. It was also a political party led by Watanabe from 2009 until its d ...
. Upon the dissolution of Your Party in November 2014 he joined the
Party for Future Generations
The , officially the , was a Japanese political party. It was formed as the on 1 August 2014 by a group of Diet members led by Shintarō Ishihara. The party adopted its final name in December 2015, and ended up dissolving in November 2018.
Histo ...
. He left the party in August 2015 and sat as an independent until becoming the leader of
Kibō no Tō
was a conservative political party in Japan founded by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike. The party was founded just before the call of the 2017 general election. The party's ideology was mainly Japanese conservatism and nationalism.
Kibō no Tō ...
in May 2018. He resigned as leader on May 28, 2019, and was succeeded by
Nariaki Nakayama
is a Japanese politician who has served as leader of Kibō no Tō
was a conservative political party in Japan founded by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike. The party was founded just before the call of the 2017 general election. The party's i ...
. He subsequently left the party and joined
Nippon Ishin no Kai
The is a conservative and right-wing populist political party in Japan. Formed as ''Initiatives from Osaka'' in October 2015 from a split in the old Japan Innovation Party, the party became the third-biggest opposition party in the National D ...
.
During his time as a graduate student at the Matsushita School of Government, Matsuzawa lived in
Frederick, Maryland
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for a year and worked in the office of then-U.S. Congresswoman
Beverly Byron
Beverly Barton Butcher Byron (born July 27, 1932) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the U.S. Congresswoman representing the 6th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1979, to January 3, 1 ...
, studying the 1984 U.S. presidential election, which became the subject of a book he wrote and published in Japan in 1985.
He was affiliated with the openly nationalist organisation
.
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1958 births
Living people
Governors of Kanagawa Prefecture
Keio University alumni
Members of the House of Representatives (Japan)
Members of the House of Councillors (Japan)
Members of the Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly
Your Party politicians
People from Kawasaki, Kanagawa
United States congressional aides
Tokyo gubernatorial candidates
Nippon Ishin no Kai politicians
21st-century Japanese politicians
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Members of Nippon Kaigi