Education
Keio University.
松沢 成文
Keio University.
A native of Kawasaki, Kanagawa and graduate of Keio University, he has previously served in the assembly of Kanagawa Prefecture for two terms from 1987 to 1993, in the House of Representatives in the Diet for three terms from 1993 to 2003 and as the governor of Kanagawa Prefecture from 2003 until 2011. Upon the dissolution of Your Party in November 2014 he joined the Party for Future Generations. He left the party in August 2015 and sits as an independent.
During his time as a graduate student at the Matsushita School of Government, Matsuzawa lived in Frederick, Maryland for a year and worked in the office of then-United States Congresswoman Beverly Byron (Doctorate-Doctor of Medicine), studying the 1984 United States. presidential election, which became the subject of a book he wrote and published in Japan in 1985.
He was elected to the House of Councillors in 2013 as a member of Your Party.