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Masanao Ozaki
Masanao Ozaki
尾崎正直
	Masanao Ozaki in 2022
Member of the House of Representatives
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 3 November 2021
Preceded by	Hajime Hirota
Constituency	Kōchi 2nd district
Governor of Kōchi Prefecture
	In office; 7 December 2007 – 6 December 2019
Preceded by	Daijiro Hashimoto
Succeeded by	Seiji Hamada
Personal details
Born	September 14, 1967 (age 56); Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
Political party	LDP (2020-present)
Other political; affiliations	Independent (before 2020)
Alma mater	University of Tokyo

Masanao Ozaki (尾崎正直, Ozaki Masanao, born September 14, 1967 in Kōchi, Kōchi) is a Japanese politician.

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He graduated from University of Tokyo with the Bachelor of Economics degree in 1991 and a former bureaucrat of the Ministry of the Treasury (now the Ministry of Finance).^[1] He worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2000. He worked as a secretary in the Embassy of Japan in Indonesia (firstly, Second Secretary and from 2001, First Secretary). He served as a secretary of the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary from 2006.　He retired from the Ministry of Finance in October 2007.

He ran and was elected governor of Kochi Prefecture in 2007.

After serving as governor for three terms and 12 years, he announced his candidacy for the Lower House general election.^[2] He ran for Kōchi 2nd district from the Liberal Democratic Party and was first elected to the House of Representatives after defeating Hajime Hirota, an incumbent member of the House of Representatives of the CDP.^[3]^[4]

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^ 知事のプロフィール｜高知県庁ホームページ (in Japanese). Retrieved April 8, 2016.
^ "高知の尾崎知事が退任　３期１２年「挑戦でき誇り」". Sankei Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-01.
^ "自民・尾崎正直氏が初当選、立民・広田一氏らを破る…高知２区". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-01.
^ "高知、自民が2議席を独占　元防衛相の中谷元氏は11選". The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-01.