Ryōsei Akazawa (赤沢 亮正, Akazawa Ryōsei, born December 18, 1960) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature), representing the Tottori 2nd district in Tottori Prefecture.

A native of Bunkyō, Tokyo and graduate of the University of Tokyo, Akazawa joined the Ministry of Transport in 1984 and attended Cornell University in the United States while in the ministry.

[1] Akazawa gained some notoriety in August 2011 after berating Economy Minister Banri Kaieda for twenty minutes on the floor of the Diet over the ministry's handling of the Fukushima disaster, ultimately bringing Kaieda to tears.

[3] His great-grandfather was a former samurai and industrialist, while his grandfather Masamichi Akazawa was a Japanese diplomat prior to World War II and served in the Diet after the war, including as a cabinet minister under Hayato Ikeda and Eisaku Satō.

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