Masaharu Kondō

Masaharu Kondo is the kind of person who quietly keeps the whole machine running while the rest of us never learn his name — a career bureaucrat, University of Tokyo educated, born in Aichi in 1956, which puts him squarely in that postwar generation that genuinely believed hard work and service to the state meant something. That Todai-to-government pipeline he walked is about as old-school elite Japan as it gets, and I mean that with respect rather than side-eye. Not glamorous, not viral, but the system needs those people, and five years heading the Cabinet Legislation Bureau say he was one of them.

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Masaharu Kondō is a Japanese government bureaucrat born on January 13, 1956, in Aichi Prefecture. He graduated from the University of Tokyo, following a path typical of Japan's elite administrative career track. After joining the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, he moved to the Cabinet Legislation Bureau and served as its Director-General from 2019 to 2024.

Name (English)

Masaharu Kondō

Name (Japanese)

近藤正春

Reading

こんどう まさはる

Born

January 13, 1956 (age 70)

Origin

Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Bureaucrat

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Monkey

University

University of Tokyo

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BF%91%E8%97%A4%E6%AD%A3%E6%98%A5
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69891541

Tags

• From Aichi Prefecture
• Bureaucrat

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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