Yoshinori Ohno
{{Short description|Japanese politician (1935–2023)}}
{{About|a Japanese politician|a video game producer|Yoshinori Ono (game producer)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Yoshinori Ohno
|native_name = {{nobold|大野 功統}}
|native_name_lang = ja
|image = Yoshinori Ono 20040927.jpg
|image_size = 220px
|caption = Official portrait, 2004
|office1 = Director General of the Japan Defense Agency
|primeminister1 = Junichiro Koizumi
|term_start1 = 27 September 2004
|term_end1 = 31 October 2005
|predecessor1 = Shigeru Ishiba
|successor1 = Fukushiro Nukaga
|office2 = Member of the House of Representatives
|constituency2 = Kagawa 2nd (1986–1996)
Kagawa 3rd (1996–2012)
|term_start2 = 6 July 1986
|term_end2 = 16 November 2012
|predecessor2 = Multi-member district
|successor2 = Keitaro Ohno
|birth_date = {{birth date|1935|10|16|df=y}}
|birth_place = Taiwan, Empire of Japan
|death_date = {{death date and age|2023|07|16|1935|10|16|df=y}}
|death_place =
|children = Keitaro Ohno
|party = Liberal Democratic
|alma_mater = University of Tokyo (LLB)
}}
Yoshinori Ohno (大野 功統 Ōno Yoshinori, 16 October 1935 – 16 July 2023) was a Japanese politician who served as Minister of State for Defense in Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's third Cabinet from 2004 to 2005. He was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Life and career
File:Donald Rumsfeld and Yoshinori Ohno.jpg at The Pentagon in 2005]]
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 after 1996). From 2004 to 2005 he was Director General of the Japan Defense Agency.
Ohno died on 16 July 2023, at the age of 87.{{cite news |title=元防衛庁長官の大野功統氏が死去、87歳 |url=https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/20230718-OYT1T50139/ |access-date=18 July 2023 |publisher=Yomiuri |date=18 July 2023}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Yoshinori Ōno}}
- {{Official website|http://www.e-ohno.com|Yoshinori Ono's official website}} {{in lang|ja}}
- [http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/koizumidaijin/040927/14ohno_e.html Yoshinori Ono's profile]
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Category:20th-century Japanese lawyers
Category:20th-century Japanese politicians
Category:Ministers of defense of Japan
Category:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
Category:University of Tokyo alumni
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun
Category:Knights of the Legion of Honour
Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2005–2009
Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2009–2012
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