Heita Kawakatsu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Heita Kawakatsu

Japanese politician

Date of Birth: 16-Aug-1948

Place of Birth: Ōsaka, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

Profession: politician, economist, historian, university teacher

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Heita Kawakatsu (?? ??, Kawakatsu Heita, born 16 August 1948) is the current governor of Shizuoka Prefecture.
Born in 1948, he has been governor since 2009.
A former economic historian, Kawakatsu was a professor at the controversial International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto from 1998 to 2007.
Kawakatsu's research on "civilization theory" has been critiqued by historians such as Tessa Morris-Suzuki.
Kawakatsu has written numerous books in the Nihonjinron genre of Japanese cultural nationalism.