Shigefumi Matsuzawa

Shigefumi Matsuzawa
松沢 成文
Matsuzawa in 2022
Member of the House of Councillors
Assumed office
26 July 2022
Preceded byNobuhiro Miura
ConstituencyKanagawa at-large
In office
29 July 2013 – 8 August 2021
Preceded byAkira Matsu
Succeeded byMotoko Mizuno
ConstituencyKanagawa at-large
Leader of Kibō no Tō
In office
7 May 2018 – 28 May 2019
Preceded byYuichiro Tamaki
Succeeded byNariaki Nakayama
Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture
In office
23 April 2003 – 23 April 2011
Preceded byHiroshi Okazaki
Succeeded byYūji Kuroiwa
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
19 July 1993 – 27 March 2003
Preceded byMulti-member district
Succeeded byHirofumi Ryu
ConstituencyKanagawa 2nd (1993–1996)
Kanagawa 9th (1996–2003)
Member of the Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly
In office
April 1987 – 6 July 1993
ConstituencyAsao-ku, Kawasaki
Personal details
Born (1958-04-02) 2 April 1958 (age 66)
Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Political partyJIP (since 2019)
Other political
affiliations
JRP (1993–1994)
NFP (1994–1998)
VotP (1998)
GGP (1998)
DPJ (1998–2001)
Independent (2001–2012; 2015-2018)
Your (2012–2014)
PFG (2014–2015)
Kibō no Tō (2018–2019)
Alma materKeio University

Shigefumi Matsuzawa (松沢 成文, Matsuzawa Shigefumi, born April 2, 1958) is a Japanese politician and a current member of the House of Councillors for the Kanagawa at-large district in the Diet of Japan.[1] A native of Kawasaki, Kanagawa and graduate of Keio University with a bachelor's degree in Political Science, he has previously served in the assembly of Kanagawa Prefecture for two terms from 1987[2] to 1993, in the House of Representatives in the Diet for three terms from 1993 to 2003 and as the governor of Kanagawa Prefecture from 2003[3] until 2011. He was elected to the House of Councillors in 2013 as a member of Your Party. Upon the dissolution of Your Party in November 2014 he joined the Party for Future Generations. He left the party in August 2015 and sat as an independent until becoming the leader of Kibō no Tō in May 2018. He resigned as leader on May 28, 2019, and was succeeded by Nariaki Nakayama. He subsequently left the party and joined Nippon Ishin no Kai.

During his time as a graduate student at the Matsushita School of Government, Matsuzawa lived in Frederick, Maryland for a year and worked in the office of then-U.S. Congresswoman Beverly Byron, 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 Nippon Kaigi.

References

  1. ^ "Mr.MATSUZAWA Shigefumi:House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  2. ^ "Breakfast Meeting with Shigefumi Matsuzawa, Leader of the Party of Hope | GR Japan". grjapan.com. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  3. ^ "greeting|shushokousensei.com". www.xn--55q0ss42gdlvmsj.com. Retrieved 24 May 2023.