Kazuhiro Sugita

Kazuhiro Sugita
杉田和博
Official portrait, 2012
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
(for administrative affairs)
In office
26 December 2012 – 4 October 2021
Prime MinisterShinzo Abe
Yoshihide Suga
Preceded byMakoto Taketoshi
Succeeded byShun'ichi Kuryu
Personal details
Born (1941-04-11) 11 April 1941 (age 83)
Saitama Prefecture, Empire of Japan
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo

Kazuhiro Sugita (杉田 和博, Sugita Kazuhiro, born 11 April 1941) is a Japanese police officer who served as Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary from 2012 to 2021. As such, Sugita was the senior bureaucrat in Japan from the inauguration of the Second Abe Cabinet to the end of the Suga Cabinet.