Hiroshi Ogawa | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Governor of Fukuoka Prefecture |
Term Start: | 25 April 2011 |
Term End: | 24 March 2021 |
Predecessor: | Wataru Asō |
Successor: | Seitaro Hattori |
Birth Date: | 1949 5, df=y |
Birth Place: | Fukuoka, Japan |
Death Place: | Fukuoka, Japan |
Party: | Independent |
Alma Mater: | Kyoto University |
was a Japanese politician who became the governor of Fukuoka Prefecture in 2011.[1] In 2015, he was re-elected for a second term,[2] and for a third term in 2019. In 2021 he resigned to receive cancer treatment and the vice governor Seitaro Hattori was elected to replace him.[3]