Yoshinori Ohno

This article is about a Japanese politician. For a video game producer, see Yoshinori Ono (game producer).

Yoshinori Ohno
大野 功統
Official portrait, 2004
Director General of the Japan Defense Agency
In office 27 September 2004 – 31 October 2005
Prime Minister	Junichiro Koizumi
Preceded by	Shigeru Ishiba
Succeeded by	Fukushiro Nukaga
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 6 July 1986 – 16 November 2012
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Keitaro Ohno
Constituency	Kagawa 2nd (1986–1996) Kagawa 3rd (1996–2012)
Personal details
Born	(1935-10-16)16 October 1935 Taiwan, Empire of Japan
Died	16 July 2023(2023-07-16) (aged 87)
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Children	Keitaro Ohno
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

Ohno with Donald Rumsfeld 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.

External links

• Yoshinori Ono's official website (in Japanese)
• Yoshinori Ono's profile