Hidetaka Ogura

was a Japanese sociologist, educator and political advisor. As an advisor, he worked as at Japan's embassies in Havana, Lima, and Mexico City, after which he worked as a university professor at a number of universities in Tokyo and Osaka. He died of cancer in Shizuoka at the age of 72. He worked at Japan's embassy in Havana, where he met Fidel Castro and the Che Guevara. He started working at Japan's embassy in Lima as an employee, eventually being promoted to advisor.

In 1996, Ogura was one several people taken hostage by the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) who, headed by Néstor Cerpa Cartolini, took over the ambassador's residence over a nearly five-month long period. After an escape plan was discovered by the terrorists, other hostages suspected Ogura of having leaked the plan to Cerpa, head of the militant group.

On April 22, 1997, prior to Operation Chavín de Huántar (the raid that put an end to the hostage situation), Ogura was playing a card game with MRTA members, after which they went to the first floor to play futsal. Ogura was forcibly taken to a room by the rest of the hostages, and a signal was given to execute the raid. APRODEH, a human rights NGO, supported the families of the deceased MRTA members. Following the accusation, critics of Ogura connected him to the Japanese government's suspicion that someone had assisted the MRTA by giving the group insider information on the embassy, although nothing was ultimately proven.

Ogura died of colorectal cancer on September 5, 2023.