Heita Kawakatsu

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Heita Kawakatsu
川勝 平太
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on August 31, 2014
Governor of Shizuoka Prefecture
Assumed office
7 July 2009
Preceded byYoshinobu Ishikawa
Personal details
Born (1948-08-16) 16 August 1948 (age 73)
Osaka, Japan
Political partyIndependent
Alma materWaseda University
University of Oxford

Heita Kawakatsu (川勝 平太, Kawakatsu Heita, born 16 August 1948) is the current governor of Shizuoka Prefecture.[1] Born in 1948, he has been governor since 2009.[2] A former economic historian, Kawakatsu was a professor at the controversial International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto from 1998 to 2007. Kawakatsu's research on "civilization theory" has been critiqued by historians such as Tessa Morris-Suzuki.[3] Kawakatsu has written numerous books in the Nihonjinron genre of Japanese cultural studies.

References[]

  1. ^ "静岡県/ようこそ知事室へ". www.pref.shizuoka.jp. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  2. ^ "静岡県/プロフィール【ようこそ知事室へ】". www.pref.shizuoka.jp. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  3. ^ "Re-inventing Japan: Nation, Culture, Identity". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
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