Heita Kawakatsu


Heita Kawakatsu is the current governor of Shizuoka Prefecture. Born in 1948, he has been governor since 2009. A former economic historian, Kawakatsu was a professor at the controversial International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto from 1998 to 2007. Kawakatsu's research on "civilization theory" has been critiqued by historians such as Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Kawakatsu has written numerous books in the Nihonjinron genre of Japanese cultural nationalism.