Keitaro Ohno

Keitarō Ohno
Keitarō Ohno
大野敬太郎
	Official portrait, 2021
Member of the House of Representatives
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 16 December 2012
Preceded by	Yoshinori Ohno
Constituency	Kagawa 3rd
Personal details
Born	1 November 1968 (age 56); Marugame, Kagawa, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Parent	Yoshinori Ohno (father);
Alma mater	Tokyo Institute of Technology; Tokyo University; University of California at Berkeley

Keitarō Ohno (大野敬太郎, Ōno Keitarō, born November 1, 1968) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party. He is currently serving as Deputy Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. He has served as State Minister of Cabinet Office in charge of Economic Security, Disaster Management, Space Policy, Science and Technology, etc, from 2021 to 2022, Parliamentary Vice Minister of Defense from 2017 to 2018, acting director of Foreign Policy Division and Deputy Chief Secretary of Security Research Committee from 2018 to 2019. He has been representing Kagawa 3rd district in the House of Representatives.

He started his career as an engineering researcher at Fujitsu Limited. He was with the Space Development Group, involved in research and design of several components on flight-model satellites,^[1] including ARH on ETS-VII,^[2]^[3] GLI on ADEOS-II, TIR on ASTER, XRS on ASTRO-E^[4] and LISM on SELENE. In 1999, he moved to its research institute, Fujitsu Laboratories and was working on the robust and optimal control for applications including HDDs,^[5] humanoid robot,^[6] GPS,^[7] spatial information system,^[8] etc. During this term, he was with the University of California at Berkeley as visiting fellow to continue to work on the fundamental research on control engineering.^[9]

Political career

He started his political career as private secretary to the Minister of State for Defense in 2004 when his father was appointed to it by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. He was in charge of supporting several issues including the revision of the National Defense Program Guideline, realignment of U.S. bases in Japan, and extending the activities of the Japanese Self Defense Forces in Iraq. He had been serving as a legislative assistant to his father until he run his own election. Other than the position in the diet, he was with the Department of Information Physics and Computing of the University of Tokyo, where he earned Ph.D. degree in 2007. In September 2012, he was elected Chairman of third District Branch of Kagawa Prefecture of LDP and was elected member of the House of Representatives in December 2012, at the 46th general election.

His interest includes national security policy, foreign policy, economic policy, science and technology policy, and education policy.

References

^ K. Ohno, T. Mikami, I. Watanabe, and A. Ejiri, "An Experimental Study on the Performance of the Satellite Berthing Robot," Proc. of the 7th Workshop on Astrodynamics and Flight Mechanics, pp.~7-12, 1997
^ K. Ohno and T. Mikami, "Onboard Detaching/Attaching Control of Advanced Robotic Hand," Proc. of the 40th Symposium of Space Sciences and Technology, pp.~65-66, Morioka, 1996
^ K. Machida, K. Akita, K. Ohno, M. Moriya, H. Nishida and T. Ohsawa, "Performance Evaluation of Advanced Robotic Hand System in Space Experiment," Proc. of the 5th International Symposium of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS)}, pp.~319-326, Nordwijk, 1999
^ Richard L. Kelley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, The Suzaku High Resolution X-ray Spectrometer, 2006
^ K. Ohno and T. Hara, “An Adaptive Resonant Mode Compensation for Hard Disk Drives,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 53, No. 2, 2006
^ K. Ohno and F. Nagashima, "Signal processor," Publication No.~WO2006064571, 2006
^ K. Ohno and S. Mori, "A GPS receiver," Domestic Patent, Publication No.~2005-221331, 2005
^ Nagata, S. Mori, K. Ohno and Y. Hirokawa, "Server system, user terminal, service providing method and service providing system using the server system and the user terminal," United States Patent, Publication No.~20060031410, 2006
^ K. Ohno, R. Horowitz, “A Variable Structure Multi-rate State Estimator for Seeking Control of HDDs,” IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2005

External links

Official Website (in Japanese)
Official English Website

[1] K. Ohno, T. Mikami, I. Watanabe, and A. Ejiri, "An Experimental Study on the Performance of the Satellite Berthing Robot," Proc. of the 7th Workshop on Astrodynamics and Flight Mechanics, pp.~7-12, 1997

[2] K. Ohno and T. Mikami, "Onboard Detaching/Attaching Control of Advanced Robotic Hand," Proc. of the 40th Symposium of Space Sciences and Technology, pp.~65-66, Morioka, 1996

[3] K. Machida, K. Akita, K. Ohno, M. Moriya, H. Nishida and T. Ohsawa, "Performance Evaluation of Advanced Robotic Hand System in Space Experiment," Proc. of the 5th International Symposium of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS)}, pp.~319-326, Nordwijk, 1999

[4] Richard L. Kelley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, The Suzaku High Resolution X-ray Spectrometer, 2006

[5] K. Ohno and T. Hara, “An Adaptive Resonant Mode Compensation for Hard Disk Drives,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 53, No. 2, 2006

[6] K. Ohno and F. Nagashima, "Signal processor," Publication No.~WO2006064571, 2006

[7] K. Ohno and S. Mori, "A GPS receiver," Domestic Patent, Publication No.~2005-221331, 2005

[8] Nagata, S. Mori, K. Ohno and Y. Hirokawa, "Server system, user terminal, service providing method and service providing system using the server system and the user terminal," United States Patent, Publication No.~20060031410, 2006

[9] K. Ohno, R. Horowitz, “A Variable Structure Multi-rate State Estimator for Seeking Control of HDDs,” IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2005

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