Osamu Sudo

Director-General, Fukushima Reconstruction Promotion Group, Director-General for Regional Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Mr. Osamu Sudo has served as Director-General of the Fukushima Reconstruction Promotion Group since July 2019. He is responsible for reactor decommissioning and contaminated water management, as well as reconstruction support and industrial development in the affected areas.
Since joining METI, he has served in the Industrial Structure Policy Division, as well as the Development Division of the Public Benefit Service Department, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy. He assumed the office of Deputy Director of the Industrial Safety Division in 1994. From February to March 1995, he dealt with the aftermath of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake as a member of Minister Ozato's Special Assignment Office. He then assumed the offices of Deputy Mayor of Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture. He has also served as Director of the Industry and Labour Department and Director of the City Center Revitalization Office of Fukui Prefecture, where he helped promote local industries. Following the accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in 2011, he helped plan support for disaster victims and lift evacuation orders as the Director of the Support Team for Nuclear Disaster Victims of the Cabinet Office.
He served as Director of the Industrial Machinery Division and Director of the Budget and Accounts Division, before assuming the office of Director of the Support Team for Nuclear Disaster Victims in 2017 and Executive Director of the Fukushima Soso Reconstruction Corporation in 2018. Mr. Sudo is a graduate of the University of Tokyo Faculty of Economics.

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