Yoshinori Ohno

Japanese politician (1935–2023)

大野功統

Ohno in 2004

Director General of the Japan Defense AgencyIn office
September 27, 2004 – October 31, 2005Prime MinisterJunichiro KoizumiPreceded byShigeru IshibaSucceeded byFukushiro NukagaMember of the House of RepresentativesIn office
1986–2012ConstituencyKagawa Prefecture (1986–1996)
Kagawa 3rd district (1996–2012) Personal detailsBorn(1935-10-16)October 16, 1935
Taiwan, Empire of JapanDiedJuly 16, 2023(2023-07-16) (aged 87)Political partyLiberal Democratic PartyAlma materUniversity 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

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 since 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.^[1]