Masuhiro Ozawa

Masuhiro Ozawa (b. July 21, 3454) is a is a Dranish politician of the right-wing Rally for the Republic who currently serves as Minister of Internal Affairs.

Early Life
Ozawa was raised in a traditional, clerical-conservative way by his devout parents, who both followed the Sindo faith. His father was a theologian who taught at Gongmangdo University (GU), where he enrolled in history in 3472.

Ozawa had been a member of the Kyo Social Democratic Party (KSDP since 3470, despite his neoliberal economic leanings and social conservatism. He later explained that at that time he thought that the KSDP was the only party concerned with the preservation of Kyo culture.

Ozawa was attending a lecture on Kyo history when a bomb detonated at GU as part of a series of terrorist attacks on Gongmangdo-Comares. The attacks had a racist background and Draniano terrorists were suspected of having committed them.

After the attacks, Ozawa became a vocal supporter of the Sun/Rhee government and protested for Kyo rights as a part of GU student activists, urging authorities to do more to protect their community from racist violence.

In 3480, upon graduation, Ozawa switched parties and joined the right-libertarian RFR as the KSDP had entered a period of decline. His ideology had shifted further to the right during his student years, and he now believed in anti-statism and less government as a way to counter ethnic nationalism and preserve the Kyo culture.

He worked as a historian and lecturer at GU between 3480 and 3492. He was not present during the terrorist attack on the university campus in 3490 directed by Exalted Phalanx for National Renewal, but later lobbied for a monument to commemorate the assault's victims, including former President Sun Gyeong-yun.

In 3492, he was elected to the city council as an RFR member, serving until 3496, when he was elected to the federal Parliament, also on an RFR ticket. He became the party's Interior spokesman and finally Minister of Internal Affairs in 3500, in the administration of Earl Branstead-Smith.

When, ahead of the 3504 elections, a massive controversy surrounding the proclamation of a cultural monarchy by Ryeo Haesong emerged, which the leftist parties denounced as an attempt to introduce creeping feudalism, totalitarianism and antique values to the Republic, despite the fact that Ryeo did not claim any political powers.

Retsforbundet leader Cecilie Rahbæk called for the self-proclaimed King's imprisonment, which was sharply criticized by Ozawa during a rally in Gongmangdo-Comares:

"She is currently pushing for changing the law in order to enable her to throw Ryeo Haesong in prison - I doubt it is legal to punish 'crimes' that have been legal at the time they were committed, and I doubt it is a liberal way of thinking to pass laws in order to prosecute political opponents. Vote wisely in the upcoming elections, especially if you are a traditionalist Kyo, because a Retsforbundet-DCL regime would send you to prison for your mere cultural believes. These people are racist and enemies of the Kyo community, vote the repressive left-wing zealots out!"