Yoshinobu Kusunoki

I'll be honest, when I hit a profile like Yoshinobu Kusunoki's I feel a quiet kind of respect that no red-carpet celebrity ever pulls out of me. The man's a civil servant, a Kyoto University graduate out of Fukuyama in Hiroshima, born in 1966, and almost nothing about him is loud or public, which somehow tells me everything. These are the people who keep the lights of a country on while nobody's watching, doing the unglamorous, paper-heavy, thankless work that holds the whole machine together. I picture a steady, principled type who'd rather get the job right than get his name in the news. There's no scandal to gawk at here, no highlight reel, just a sense of dependable competence quietly carrying a generation through the Heisei years. Frankly, the world runs on folks like this, and I find that genuinely moving.

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Yoshinobu Kusunoki is a Japanese police bureaucrat born on July 20, 1966, in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, who serves as the 31st Commissioner General of the National Police Agency. He graduated from Kyoto University. He joined the National Police Agency after graduating from Kyoto University's Faculty of Law.

Name (English)

Yoshinobu Kusunoki

Name (Japanese)

楠芳伸

Reading

くすのき よしのぶ

Born

July 20, 1966 (age 60)

Origin

Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Bureaucrat

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Horse

University

Kyoto University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A5%A0%E8%8A%B3%E4%BC%B8
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111113247

Tags

• From Hiroshima Prefecture
• Bureaucrat

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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