Heita Kawakatsu

Heita Kawakatsu (川勝 平太, Kawakatsu Heita, born 16 August 1948) is the current governor of Shizuoka Prefecture.[1] Born in 1948, he has been governor since 2009.[2] A former economic historian, Kawakatsu was a professor at the controversial International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto from 1998 to 2007. Kawakatsu's research on "civilization theory" has been critiqued by historians such as Tessa Morris-Suzuki[3]. Kawakatsu has written numerous books in the Nihonjinron genre of Japanese cultural nationalism.

Heita Kawakatsu
川勝 平太
on August 31, 2014
Governor of Shizuoka Prefecture
Assumed office
7 July 2009
Preceded byYoshinobu Ishikawa
Personal details
Born (1948-08-16) 16 August 1948
Osaka, Japan
Political partyIndependent
Alma materWaseda University
University of Oxford

References
  1. http://www.pref.shizuoka.jp/governor/index.html
  2. http://www.pref.shizuoka.jp/governor/profile.html
  3. https://www.routledge.com/Re-inventing-Japan-Nation-Culture-Identity-Nation-Culture-Identity/Morris-Suzuki/p/book/9780765600820
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