Hidehiko Yuzaki

What draws me to Hidehiko Yuzaki is the shape of the round trip. Born in Saeki ward in Hiroshima in 1965, he went as far as Stanford, then came back to lead the prefecture he started in as its governor for four terms, from 2009 to 2025. That return is rarer than it sounds. Most people who get out that far stay out, in Tokyo or overseas, because going home usually means a smaller stage. Hiroshima is not a small stage. It is expected to speak to the world about peace and to compete hard on industry at the same time, which makes running it two jobs rather than one. He is not the flamboyant sort of politician who trends on television. He reads to me as the methodical kind, and that is usually who keeps a region actually working.

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Name (English)

Hidehiko Yuzaki

Name (Japanese)

湯崎英彦

Reading

ゆざき ひでひこ

Born

October 4, 1965 (age 61)

Origin

Saeki-ku, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Snake

University

Stanford University

• Official sitehttps://www.yuzaki.org/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hideyuzaki/
• Xhttps://x.com/yuzakihide
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidehiko%20Yuzaki
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B9%AF%E5%B4%8E%E8%8B%B1%E5%BD%A6
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1485068

Tags

• Hiroshima Prefecture
• politician

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.