Ichita Yamamoto
山本一太
Official portrait
Governor of Gunma Prefecture
Assumed office
28 July 2019
Preceded byMasaaki Ōsawa
Member of the House of Councillors
for Gunma's At-large district
In office
27 July 1995 – 4 July 2019
Preceded byGiichi Tsunoda
Tomio Yamamoto
Succeeded byMasato Shimizu
Personal details
Born (1958-01-24) 24 January 1958
Kusatsu, Gunma, Japan
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations		Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (1995–2019)
Alma materChuo University
Georgetown University

Ichita Yamamoto (山本 一太, Yamamoto Ichita, born 24 January 1958 in Kusatsu, Gunma) is a Japanese politician who has been the governor of Gunma Prefecture since July 2019. He was a neoconservative member of the House of Councillors in Japan. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he served as the Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs from 2012 to 2019 on the second Abe cabinet.[1][2]

Overview

with Yoshihide Suga and Satsuki Katayama (September 19, 2006)

Yamamoto who worked for an international organisation was elected after the death of his father Tomio Yamamoto who was a member of the House of Councillors. Ichita Yamamoto's great-grandfather founded the Kusatsu ryokan "Yamadaya". Ichita's grandfather was mayor of Kusatsu. Ichita's father, Tomio Yamamoto, started in the Kusatsu town council (1955), rose to the Gunma Prefectural Assembly (1966), and finally the House of Councillors (1977), where he remained until his death in 1995 (age 66) of liver failure. Ichita Yamamoto belongs to some committees including the Foreign and Defense Policy Committee.

Ichita Yamamoto hails from the skiing and hot spring resort town of Kusatsu in Gunma Prefecture. His family owned the Hotel White Town in Kusatsu. (This hotel went bankrupt in 1989.) Tomio Yamamoto (his father) was a coach of the Japanese Olympic ski team. Yamamoto obtained his LL.B. from Chuo University. After that, he studied English at Simul Academy and Nichibei Kaiwa Gakuin. Yamamoto then entered the Master of Science in Foreign Service program at Georgetown University, graduating in 1986.[3] Upon returning to Japan, he worked for Asahi Newspaper as a reporter for a short period of time, at the Fukushima bureau. After Asahi, Yamamoto worked for the Japanese government development aid organization JICA for a number of years, later transferring to the United Nations in New York. Upon the death of his father, he ran for the same seat and won in 1995. He was re-elected in 2001, 2007 and 2013. Yamamoto frequently appears on political talk shows in Japan.

On 26 December 2012, Yamamoto was named Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs in the second Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.[4]

Music

  • Misekake no Democracy (見せかけのデモクラシー, Fake Democracy), 1998
  • Kaikaku no Uta (かいかくの詩, Song for Reform), 2003, Featured on episode 7 of Adam and Joe Go Tokyo.


References

  1. ↑ "Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet".
  2. ↑ "Ruling coalition-backed Ichita Yamamoto wins Gunma governor race". The Japan Times. 21 July 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "Ichita Yamamoto". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  4. ↑ "Profiles of key ministers in Abe cabinet". Japan Today. 27 December 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
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