Keitaro Ohno

Keitarō Ohno (大野 敬太郎, Ōno Keitarō, born November 1, 1968) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party. He is currently serving as State Minister of Cabinet Office in charge of Economic Security, Disaster Management, Space Policy, Science and Technology, etc. He has served as Parliamentary Vice Minister of Defense from 2017 to 2018, acting director of Foreign Policy Division and Deputy Chief Secretary of Security Research Committee from 2018 to 2019, and LDP Deputy Secretary General from 2019 to 2020. He is the son of former Minister of State for Defense of Japan Yoshinori Ohno. He was elected into his father's former seat representing the Kagawa third district in 2012. He is affiliated to the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi.[1][2]

Keitarō Ohno
大野 敬太郎<
Member of the Japanese Parliament
for Kagawa 3rd district
Assumed office
2012
Preceded byYoshinori Ohno
Personal details
Born (1968-11-01) 1 November 1968
Political partyLiberal Democratic Party
Alma materTokyo Institute of Technology
Tokyo University
University of California at Berkeley

He started his career as an engineering researcher at Fujitsu Limited. He was with the Space Development Group, involved in research and design of several components on flight-model satellites,[3] including ARH on ETS-VII,[4][5] GLI on ADEOS-II, TIR on ASTER, XRS on ASTRO-E[6] and LISM on SELENE. In 1999, he moved to its research institute, Fujitsu Laboratories and was working on the robust and optimal control for applications including HDDs,[7] humanoid robot,[8] GPS,[9] spatial information system,[10] etc. During this term, he was with the University of California at Berkeley as visiting fellow to continue to work on the fundamental research on control engineering.[11]

Political career

He started his political career as private secretary to the Minister of State for Defense in 2004 when his father was appointed to it by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. He was in charge of supporting several issues including 1)revision of the National Defense Program Guideline, 2)realignment of U.S. bases in Japan, and 3)extension of activities of Japan's Self Defense Forces in Iraq. He had been serving as a legislative assistant to his father until he run his own election. Other than the position in the diet, he was with the Department of Information Physics and Computing of the University of Tokyo, where he earned Ph.D. degree in 2007. In September, 2012, he was elected Chairman of third District Branch of Kagawa Prefecture of LDP and was elected member of the House of Representatives of Japan in December, 2012, at the 46th general election.

His interest includes national security policy, foreign policy, economic policy, science and technology policy, and education policy.

References
  1. "日本会議の全貌——知られざる巨大組織の実態" Yoshifumi Tawara、2016/06/17。ISBN 9784763407818
  2. "日本会議と神社本庁" ("Japan Conference and the Association of Shinto shrines") Muneo Narusawa 2016/06/28。ISBN 9784865720105
  3. K. Ohno, T. Mikami, I. Watanabe, and A. Ejiri, "An Experimental Study on the Performance of the Satellite Berthing Robot," Proc. of the 7th Workshop on Astrodynamics and Flight Mechanics, pp.~7-12, 1997
  4. K. Ohno and T. Mikami, "Onboard Detaching/Attaching Control of Advanced Robotic Hand," Proc. of the 40th Symposium of Space Sciences and Technology, pp.~65-66, Morioka, 1996
  5. K. Machida, K. Akita, K. Ohno, M. Moriya, H. Nishida and T. Ohsawa, "Performance Evaluation of Advanced Robotic Hand System in Space Experiment," Proc. of the 5th International Symposium of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS)}, pp.~319-326, Nordwijk, 1999
  6. Richard L. Kelley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, The Suzaku High Resolution X-ray Spectrometer, 2006
  7. K. Ohno and T. Hara, “An Adaptive Resonant Mode Compensation for Hard Disk Drives,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 53, No. 2, 2006
  8. K. Ohno and F. Nagashima, "Signal processor," Publication No.~WO2006064571, 2006
  9. K. Ohno and S. Mori, "A GPS receiver," Domestic Patent, Publication No.~2005-221331, 2005
  10. Nagata, S. Mori, K. Ohno and Y. Hirokawa, "Server system, user terminal, service providing method and service providing system using the server system and the user terminal," United States Patent, Publication No.~20060031410, 2006
  11. K. Ohno, R. Horowitz, “A Variable Structure Multi-rate State Estimator for Seeking Control of HDDs,” IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2005
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