Akira Watanabe (Scouting)

{{short description|Japanese politician}}

{{Expand Japanese|topic=bio|渡辺昭|date=May 2018}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix =

| name = Akira Watanabe

| native_name = {{nobold|渡辺昭}}

| native_name_lang = ja

| honorific-suffix =

| image = Akira Watanabe(Earl).jpg

| alt =

| caption = Watanabe in 1943

| order =

| office = Chief Scout of the Scout Association of Japan

| term_start = 1974

| term_end = 2003

| predecessor = Saburō Matsukata

| successor = Shōichi Saba

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1901|12|25}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2005|07|23|1901|12|25|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Takanawa, Tokyo, Japan

| death_place = Tokyo, Japan

}}

File:Commemorative Boy Scout Plaque at Tenjinhama.JPG is the site of the first Boy Scouts of Japan camping trip attended by the Imperial Family]]

{{nihongo|Akira Watanabe|渡辺昭}} (December 25, 1901 – July 23, 2005) was the seventh National President of the Boy Scouts of Japan from 1974 to 2003, and served on the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.{{cite web|url=http://www.scout.org/en/content/download/6314/59099/file/TR_2002-2005_7_EN.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705154443/http://scout.org/en/content/download/6314/59099/file/TR_2002-2005_7_EN.pdf |archivedate=2008-07-05 }}