Yūzan Fujita
{{Short description|Japanese politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Yūzan Fujita
| native_name = {{nobold|藤田 雄山}}
| native_name_lang = ja
| office = Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture
| term_start = 29 November 1993
| term_end = 28 November 2009
| predecessor = Toranosuke Takeshita
| successor = Hidehiko Yuzaki
| office1 = Member of the House of Councillors
| constituency1 = Hiroshima at-large
| term_start1 = 24 July 1989
| term_end1 = 10 November 1993
| predecessor1 = Masaaki Fujita
| successor1 = Kensei Mizote
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1949|04|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = Minami-ku, Hiroshima, Japan
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|12|18|1949|04|19|df=y}}
| father = Masaaki Fujita
| relatives = Hiroo Ōhara (grandfather)
| alma_mater = Keio University
}}
{{nihongo|Yūzan Fujita|藤田 雄山|Fujita Yūzan|extra=April 19, 1949 – December 18, 2015}} was a Japanese politician and the governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from 1993 to 2009. A native of Minami-ku, Hiroshima and graduate of Keio University, he had served in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan since 1989 for one term before being elected governor.{{cite web|url=http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASHDL3QW1HDLPITB003.html|title=前広島県知事・藤田雄山さん死去|work=朝日新聞デジタル}}
Governor of Hiroshima prefecture
As governor, he protested the US-Indian agreement on nuclear cooperation of September 2008.http://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/mediacenter/article.php?story=20080909145925623_en&query= In 2006, he opposed, along with other governors in Japan, the US plan to rearrange the deployment of US troops in Japan.{{Cite news|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/01/17/national/aso-tries-to-win-over-yamaguchi-hiroshima-on-bases/|title=Aso tries to win over Yamaguchi, Hiroshima on bases|date=2006-01-17|work=The Japan Times Online|access-date=2017-07-20|language=en-US|issn=0447-5763}} On July 16, 2009, he reversed the policy of Hiroshima prefecture regarding compensations to hibakusha living outside Japan as he announced that he would not appeal a July 2008 ruling of the District Court of Hiroshima regarding such compensations to a hibakusha who had emigrated to Brazil.http://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/mediacenter/article.php?story=20090717113120660_en
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- {{cite web |url=http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/diet/profile/0004/00004274.html |script-title=ja:政治家情報 〜藤田 雄山〜 | work=JANJAN |access-date=2007-12-08 |language=ja}}
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before=Toranosuke Takeshita |
title=Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture|
after=Hidehiko Yuzaki|
years=1993–2009}}
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Category:People from Hiroshima
Category:Governors of Hiroshima
Category:Members of the House of Councillors (Japan)
Category:Keio University alumni
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