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Shōgo Arai

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Shōgo Arai
荒井 正吾
Governor of Nara Prefecture
Assumed office
3 May 2007
Preceded byYoshiya Kakimoto
Personal details
Born (1945-01-18) 18 January 1945 (age 79)
Yao, Osaka, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic Party of Japan
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo

Shōgo Arai (荒井 正吾, Arai Shōgo, born 18 January 1945 in Yao, Osaka) is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Nara Prefecture in Japan, first elected in 2007. A graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Transport, attending Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as a ministry official. Leaving the ministry in 2001, he was elected to the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature) for the first time in the same year.

References

  • 政治家情報 〜荒井 正吾〜. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 29 July 2007. Retrieved 8 December 2007.