Sakihito Ozawa

Sakihito Ozawa
Sakihito Ozawa
小沢鋭仁
	Ozawa in 2013
Minister of the Environment
	In office; 16 September 2009 – 8 June 2010
Prime Minister	Yukio Hatoyama; Naoto Kan
Preceded by	Tetsuo Saito
Succeeded by	Goshi Hosono
Member of the House of Representatives
	In office; 18 July 1993 – 28 September 2017
Constituency	Yamanashi at-large (1993–1996); Southern Kanto PR (1996–2000; 2012–2014); Yamanashi 1st (2000–2012); Kinki PR (2014–2017)
Personal details
Born	31 May 1954 (age 70); Koshu, Yamanashi, Japan
Political party	Independent
Other political; affiliations	JNP (1992–1994); NPS (1994–1996); DP (1996–1998); DPJ (1998–2012) ; JRP (2012–2014); NIK (2015–2017); Kibō (2017–2018)
Alma mater	University of Tokyo

Sakihito Ozawa (小沢鋭仁, Ozawa Sakihito, born 1954) is a Japanese politician and former banker. He was a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan and previously served as leader of the Vision of Reform party, which he formed in December 2015. A native of Kofu, Yamanashi, he graduated from the University of Tokyo and received a master's degree in political science from Saitama University. Shortly after graduating, he studied economics and policy under Eisuke Sakakibara. Before joining the House of Representatives, he worked at Tokyo Bank and served as an advisor to several lawmakers. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993 as a member of Morihiro Hosokawa's Japan New Party. He was the Minister of the Environment during Yukio Hatoyama's prime ministership in 2009–2010.