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Fusae Ohta (太田 房江 Ōta Fusae born June 2 1951) is a Japanese politician a former governor of Osaka prefecture and the country’s first female prefectural governor.Born in Kure Hiroshima she later moved to Toyohashi Aichi.After graduating from the University of Tokyo with an economics degree in 1976 Ohta entered the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. She served in MITI until 1997 when she became vice-governor of Okayama prefecture.