Yūzan Fujita
Japanese politician
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Yūzan Fujita (藤田 雄山, Fujita Yūzan; 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.[1]
Yūzan Fujita | |
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藤田 雄山 | |
| Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture | |
| In office 29 November 1993 – 28 November 2009 | |
| Monarch | Akihito |
| Preceded by | Toranosuke Takeshita |
| Succeeded by | Hidehiko Yuzaki |
| Member of the House of Councillors | |
| In office 24 July 1989 – 10 November 1993 | |
| Preceded by | Masaaki Fujita |
| Succeeded by | Kensei Mizote |
| Constituency | Hiroshima at-large |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 April 1949 |
| Died | 18 December 2015 (aged 66) Hiroshima, Japan |
| Party | Liberal Democratic |
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| Relatives | Hiroo Ōhara (grandfather) |
| Keio University | |
Governor of Hiroshima prefecture
As governor, he protested the US-Indian agreement on nuclear cooperation of September 2008.[2] In 2006, he opposed, along with other governors in Japan, the US plan to rearrange the deployment of US troops in Japan.[3] 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.[4]
