Shigefumi Matsuzawa

Japanese politician

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松沢成文

Matsuzawa in 2022

Leader of Kibō no TōIn office
7 May 2018 – 28 May 2019Preceded byYuichiro TamakiSucceeded byNariaki NakayamaMember of House of Councillors

Incumbent

Assumed office
21 July 2013

Serving with Hiroe Makiyama, Dai Shimamura, Sayaka Sasaki

Preceded byMasashi MitoConstituencyKanagawaGovernor of Kanagawa PrefectureIn office
23 April 2003 – 23 April 2011Preceded byHiroshi OkazakiSucceeded byYūji KuroiwaMember of House of RepresentativesIn office
19 July 1993 – 25 March 2003 Personal detailsBorn (1958-04-02) April 2, 1958 (age 66)
Kawasaki, Kanagawa, JapanPolitical partyNippon Ishin no KaiOther political
affiliationsKibō (2018–2019)
Future Generations (2014–2015)
Your Party (2012–2014)
Independent (2001–2012, 2015-2018)
DPJ (1998–2001)
Good Governance (1998)
VotP (1998)
NFP (1994-1998)
JRP (1993-1994)
Alma mater Keio 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

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

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