Masanao Ozaki

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Masanao Ozaki
尾崎 正直
Official portrait, 2022
Member of the House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 November 2021
Preceded by	Hajime Hirota
Constituency	Kōchi 2nd
Governor of Kōchi Prefecture
In office 7 December 2007 – 6 December 2019
Preceded by	Daijiro Hashimoto
Succeeded by	Seiji Hamada
Personal details
Born	(1967-09-14) 14 September 1967 (age 57) Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
Political party	LDP (since 2020)
Other political affiliations	Independent (before 2020)
Alma mater	University of Tokyo

Masanao Ozaki (尾崎 正直, Ozaki Masanao, born September 14, 1967 in Kōchi, Kōchi) is a Japanese politician who has been serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 2021.

He graduated from University of Tokyo with the Bachelor of Economics degree in 1991 and a former bureaucrat of the Ministry of the Treasury (now the Ministry of Finance).^[1] He worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2000. He worked as a secretary in the Embassy of Japan in Indonesia (firstly, Second Secretary and from 2001, First Secretary). He served as a secretary of the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary from 2006.　He retired from the Ministry of Finance in October 2007.

He ran and was elected governor of Kochi Prefecture in 2007.

After serving as governor for three terms and 12 years, he announced his candidacy for the Lower House general election.^[2] He ran for Kōchi 2nd district from the Liberal Democratic Party and was first elected to the House of Representatives after defeating Hajime Hirota, an incumbent member of the House of Representatives of the CDP.^[3][4]

• 政治家情報 〜尾崎 正直〜 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved December 23, 2007.

• Official website (in Japanese)

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