Kazuhiro Sugita

Kazuhiro Sugita
杉田 和博
Official portrait, 2012
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
(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
Died22 December 2025(2025-12-22) (aged 84)
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
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Kazuhiro Sugita (杉田 和博, Sugita Kazuhiro; 11 April 1941 – 22 December 2025) was a Japanese government official 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. He was previously a police officer.