Shigefumi Matsuzawa

Shigefumi Matsuzawa (松沢 成文, Matsuzawa Shigefumi, born April 2, 1958) is a Japanese politician and a current member of the House of Councillors for the Kanagawa at-large district in the Diet of Japan. A native of Kawasaki, Kanagawa and graduate of Keio University with a bachelor's degree in Political Science, he has previously served in the assembly of Kanagawa Prefecture for two terms from 1987 to 1993, in the House of Representatives in the Diet for three terms from 1993 to 2003 and as the governor of Kanagawa Prefecture from 2003 until 2011. He was elected to the House of Councillors in 2013 as a member of Your Party. Upon the dissolution of Your Party in November 2014 he joined the Party for Future Generations. He left the party in August 2015 and sat as an independent until becoming the leader of Kibō no Tō in May 2018. He resigned as leader on May 28, 2019, and was succeeded by Nariaki Nakayama. He subsequently left the party and joined Nippon Ishin no Kai.

Shigefumi Matsuzawa
松沢 成文
Leader of Kibō no Tō
In office 7 May 2018 – 28 May 2019
Preceded by	Yuichiro Tamaki
Succeeded by	Nariaki Nakayama
Member of House of Councillors
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 July 2013 Serving with Hiroe Makiyama, Dai Shimamura, Sayaka Sasaki
Preceded by	Masashi Mito
Constituency	Kanagawa
Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture
In office 23 April 2003 – 23 April 2011
Preceded by	Hiroshi Okazaki
Succeeded by	Yūji Kuroiwa
Personal details
Born	(1958-04-02) April 2, 1958 Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Political party	Nippon Ishin no Kai
Alma mater	Keio University

During his time as a graduate student at the Matsushita School of Government, Matsuzawa lived in Frederick, Maryland for a year and worked in the office of then-U.S. Congresswoman Beverly Byron, studying the 1984 U.S. presidential election, which became the subject of a book he wrote and published in Japan in 1985.