Kotaro Nagasaki

Kotaro Nagasaki
長崎幸太郎
Governor of Yamanashi Prefecture
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 February 2019
Preceded by	Hitoshi Goto
Member of House of Representatives
In office 8 December 2012 – 28 September 2017
Preceded by	Takehiro Sakaguchi
Succeeded by	Noriko Horiuchi
Constituency	Yamanashi 2nd
In office 11 September 2005 – 21 July 2009
Constituency	Southern Kanto PR
Personal details
Born	(1968-08-18) 18 August 1968 (age 56) Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Alma mater	Tokyo University
Website	Official website

Kotaro Nagasaki (長崎 幸太郎, Nagasaki Kōtarō, born August 18, 1968) is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Tokyo and graduate of the University of Tokyo he joined the Ministry of Finance in 1991. He graduated from Cornell Law School in the United States while still in the ministry. In 2005 he left the ministry and was elected to the Diet for the first time. In 2019 he was elected governor of the Yamanashi Prefecture with 49.7% votes in a single round.