Yoshinori Ohno

Yoshinori Ohno
大野 功統
Director General of the Japan Defense Agency
In office September 27, 2004 – October 31, 2005
Prime Minister	Junichiro Koizumi
Preceded by	Shigeru Ishiba
Succeeded by	Fukushiro Nukaga
Member of the House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office 1986
Constituency	Kagawa Prefecture (1986-1996) (1996-)
Personal details
Born	(1935-10-16) 16 October 1935 (age 85) Taiwan, Empire of Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party
Alma mater	University of Tokyo (LLB)

Yoshinori Ohno (大野 功統 Ōno Yoshinori, born October 16, 1935) was Japan's Minister of State for Defense in Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's third Cabinet from 2004 to 2005. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Personal[]

Ohno was born in Taiwan (then under Japanese rule) in 1935 and return to Japan in 1947 and settled in Toyohama-cho, Mitoyo-gun, Kagawa Prefecture (now Kannonji City). He graduated from Takamatsu Daiichi Senior High School and then went on to study law at University of Tokyo in the Graduate School for Law and Politics. After university he began his career with the Ministry of Finance. After an unsuccessful bid as Governor of Kagawa Prefecture in 1978, Ohno was elected to the House of Representatives for Kagawa Prefecture in 1986 (and as member of the Kagawa Prefecture's 3rd District since 1996). From 2004 to 2005 he was Director General of the Japan Defense Agency.

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