Katsumi Ogawa

Katsumi Ogawa was born in 1951 — right in the thick of postwar Japan's wild reconstruction era — and he graduated from Kumamoto Gakuen University before stepping into politics. He's got an official website, an active Instagram, and an X account, which for a man in his seventies is genuinely impressive — no ghost accounts, actual effort. He came to politics from physical therapy, rising to vice president of the Japanese Physical Therapy Association before winning a seat in the House of Councillors, which to me reads as the kind of low-drama steadiness that keeps a career alive for decades.

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Katsumi Ogawa (born August 31, 1951) is a Japanese politician and physical therapist from Kitakyushu who has served in the House of Councillors for the Liberal Democratic Party since 2016. He graduated from Kumamoto Gakuen University. He maintains an official website and is active on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

Name (English)

Katsumi Ogawa

Name (Japanese)

小川克巳

Reading

おがわ かつみ

Born

August 31, 1951 (age 75)

Origin

Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rabbit

University

Kumamoto Gakuen University

• Official sitehttps://ogawa-katsumi.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ogawa_katsumi_pt/
• Xhttps://x.com/ogawa_katsu3
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E5%B7%9D%E5%85%8B%E5%B7%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27150792

Tags

• Politician

Last updated

October 18, 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.