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Ichirō Ozawa

PEP · Politician

Ichirō Ozawa is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Ichiro Ozawa · Ichirō Ozawa · Ičiró Ozawa · OZAWA Ichiro · Ozava Icsiró · 9 more...				[sources]
Alias	Ichiro Ozawa · Ichirou Ozawa · Ichirō Ozawa · Ičiró Ozawa · Ozawa Ichirō · 11 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	小泽一郎				[sources]
Birth date	1942-05-24				[sources]
Place of birth	Shitaya-ku				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Ichirō				[sources]
Last name	Ozawa				[sources]
Political association	Centrist Reform Alliance · Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan · Democratic Party for the People · Democratic Party of Japan · Japan Renewal Party · 5 more...				[sources]
Website	www.ozawa-ichiro.jp · ozawa-ichiro.net · twitter.com · www.ozawa-ichiro.jp				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q459998				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission (1985-1986) · Leader of the Democratic Party · Minister of Home Affairs (1985-1986) · Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party · Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · 3 more...				[sources]
Education	Altıncı Bunkyō Ortaokulu · Koishikawa Secondary Education School · Oshu City Mizusawa Elementary School · Ōshū City Higashi-Mizusawa Junior High School · 慶應義塾大学経済学部 · 1 more...				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-12	Last processed	2026-04-12	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Japanese politician (born 1942)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-01-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Shūgiin	-	-
member of the House of Representatives of Japan	2017-10-22	-

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,512

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories342,715

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,100

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata330,507

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions502,929

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: jp-shu-3f467b54b733a163946f3db315ee20d822d0f79e · evpo-0a1e6b19-3a9d-4121-986d-8333eecd9499

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