Keitaro Ohno

Keitarō Ohno
大野 敬太郎<
Member of the Japanese Parliament
for Kagawa 3rd district
Incumbent
Assumed office
2012
Preceded byYoshinori Ohno
Personal details
Born (1968-11-01) 1 November 1968 (age 56)
Political partyLiberal Democratic Party
Alma materTokyo Institute of Technology
Tokyo University
University of California at Berkeley

Keitarō Ohno (大野 敬太郎, Ōno Keitarō, born November 1, 1968) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party. He is currently serving as Deputy Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. He has served as State Minister of Cabinet Office in charge of Economic Security, Disaster Management, Space Policy, Science and Technology, etc, from 2021 to 2022, Parliamentary Vice Minister of Defense from 2017 to 2018, acting director of Foreign Policy Division and Deputy Chief Secretary of Security Research Committee from 2018 to 2019. He has been representing the Kagawa third district.

He started his career as an engineering researcher at Fujitsu Limited. He was with the Space Development Group, involved in research and design of several components on flight-model satellites,[1] including ARH on ETS-VII,[2][3] GLI on ADEOS-II, TIR on ASTER, XRS on ASTRO-E[4] and LISM on SELENE. In 1999, he moved to its research institute, Fujitsu Laboratories and was working on the robust and optimal control for applications including HDDs,[5] humanoid robot,[6] GPS,[7] spatial information system,[8] etc. During this term, he was with the University of California at Berkeley as visiting fellow to continue to work on the fundamental research on control engineering.[9]

  1. ^ K. Ohno, T. Mikami, I. Watanabe, and A. Ejiri, "An Experimental Study on the Performance of the Satellite Berthing Robot," Proc. of the 7th Workshop on Astrodynamics and Flight Mechanics, pp.~7-12, 1997
  2. ^ K. Ohno and T. Mikami, "Onboard Detaching/Attaching Control of Advanced Robotic Hand," Proc. of the 40th Symposium of Space Sciences and Technology, pp.~65-66, Morioka, 1996
  3. ^ K. Machida, K. Akita, K. Ohno, M. Moriya, H. Nishida and T. Ohsawa, "Performance Evaluation of Advanced Robotic Hand System in Space Experiment," Proc. of the 5th International Symposium of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS)}, pp.~319-326, Nordwijk, 1999
  4. ^ Richard L. Kelley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, The Suzaku High Resolution X-ray Spectrometer, 2006
  5. ^ K. Ohno and T. Hara, “An Adaptive Resonant Mode Compensation for Hard Disk Drives,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 53, No. 2, 2006
  6. ^ K. Ohno and F. Nagashima, "Signal processor," Publication No.~WO2006064571, 2006
  7. ^ K. Ohno and S. Mori, "A GPS receiver," Domestic Patent, Publication No.~2005-221331, 2005
  8. ^ Nagata, S. Mori, K. Ohno and Y. Hirokawa, "Server system, user terminal, service providing method and service providing system using the server system and the user terminal," United States Patent, Publication No.~20060031410, 2006
  9. ^ K. Ohno, R. Horowitz, “A Variable Structure Multi-rate State Estimator for Seeking Control of HDDs,” IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2005