Native Name: | 藤田 雄山 |
Native Name Lang: | jp |
Office2: | Member of the House of Councillors |
Office1: | Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture |
Term1: | 1993–2009 |
Predecessor1: | Toranosuke Takeshita |
Successor1: | Hidehiko Yuzaki |
Term2: | 1989–1993 |
Birth Date: | 19 April 1949 |
Birth Place: | Minami-ku, Hiroshima, Japan |
Alma Mater: | Keio University |
was a Japanese politician and the governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from 1993 to 2009. A native of Minami-ku, Hiroshima and graduate of Keio University, he had served in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan since 1989 for one term before being elected governor.[1]
As governor, he protested the US-Indian agreement on nuclear cooperation of September 2008.[2] In 2006, he opposed, along with other governors in Japan, the US plan to rearrange the deployment of US troops in Japan.[3] On July 16, 2009, he reversed the policy of Hiroshima prefecture regarding compensations to hibakusha living outside Japan as he announced that he would not appeal a July 2008 ruling of the District Court of Hiroshima regarding such compensations to a hibakusha who had emigrated to Brazil.[4]