Iehiro Tokugawa (''
Shinjitai
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'': 徳川家広, ''
Kyūjitai
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'': 德川家廣, ''Tokugawa Iehiro''; born 7 February 1965) is a Japanese author and translator who is the 19th generation and current head of the main
House of Tokugawa. His great-great-grandfather was the famed
Matsudaira Katamori of
Aizu
is the westernmost of the three regions of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, the other two regions being Nakadōri in the central area of the prefecture and Hamadōri in the east. As of October 1, 2010, it had a population of 291,838. The princ ...
, and his maternal great-great-grandfather was
Tokugawa Iesato
Prince was the first head of the Tokugawa clan after the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate, and a significant figure in Japanese politics and diplomacy during the Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period of Japan. When Prince Tokugawa travel ...
, the sixteenth head of the
House of Tokugawa.
Life
Tokugawa graduated from
Keio University
, abbreviated as or , is a private university, private research university located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally established as a school for Rangaku, Western studies in 1858 in Edo. It was granted university status in 1920, becomi ...
before completing a doctorate of economics at the
University of Michigan
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. He is fluent in English, and translated from Japanese a book written by his father,
Tsunenari Tokugawa
is the former 18th generation head of the Tokugawa clan. He is the son of Ichirō Matsudaira and Toyoko Tokugawa. His great-grandfather was the famed Matsudaira Katamori of Aizu and his paternal great-grandfather was Tokugawa Iesato. As a great- ...
titled ''Edo no idenshi'' (江戸の遺伝子) or ''The Edo Inheritance''. He has translated
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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Life
He grew up mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Stanford University, w ...
's book 'Green Zone' and books of
Tony Blair
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,
George Soros
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,
George Friedman,
Amy Chua
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,
Frances McCall Rosenbluth into the Japanese language. He has also worked for the
United Nations
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Food and Agriculture Organization
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.
In 2019, Tokugawa attempted to win a seat on the
House of Councillors
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for the
Shizuoka District, which he lost. He ran as a member of the
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan
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, and campaigned on completely decommissioning the
Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant, which was shut down following the
Fukushima nuclear disaster
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in 2011.
Tokugawa became the head of the
Tokugawa clan
The is a Japanese dynasty which produced the Tokugawa shoguns who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868 during the Edo period. It was formerly a powerful ''daimyō'' family. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880) and were a branch of ...
after his father stepped down from the role on 1 January 2023.
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See also
* Matsudaira clan
The was a Japanese samurai clan that descended from the Minamoto clan. It originated in and took its name from Matsudaira village, in Mikawa Province (modern-day Aichi Prefecture). During the Sengoku period, the chieftain of the main line of the ...
(parent house of Tokugawa clan)
* Nitta clan
The was one of several major families descended from the Seiwa Genji, and numbered among the chief enemies of the Hōjō clan regents, and later the Ashikaga shogunate. The common ancestor of the Nitta, Minamoto no Yoshishige (1135–1202), wa ...
(parent house of Tokugawa clan)
* Minamoto clan
was a Aristocracy (class), noble surname bestowed by the Emperors of Japan upon members of the Imperial House of Japan, imperial family who were excluded from the List of emperors of Japan, line of succession and demoted into the ranks of Nobili ...
(parent house of Matsudaira and Nitta clans)
* Imperial House of Japan
The is the reigning dynasty of Japan, consisting of those members of the extended family of the reigning emperor of Japan who undertake official and public duties. Under the present constitution of Japan, the emperor is "the symbol of the State ...
(parent house of Minamoto
was a noble surname bestowed by the Emperors of Japan upon members of the imperial family who were excluded from the line of succession and demoted into the ranks of the nobility since 814."...the Minamoto (1192-1333)". ''Warrior Rule in Jap ...
clan)
References
Further reading
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1965 births
Living people
Tokugawa clan
Columbia University alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Keio University alumni
Japanese businesspeople
21st-century Japanese translators
English–Japanese translators
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