Iehiro Tokugawa

Iehiro Tokugawa (: , : , ; born 7 February 1965) is a Japanese author and translator who is the 19th generation and current head of the main House of Tokugawa. His great-great-grandfather was the famed Matsudaira Katamori of Aizu, and his maternal great-great-grandfather was Tokugawa Iesato, the sixteenth head of the House of Tokugawa.

Life Tokugawa graduated from Keio University before completing a master's degree in economics at the University of Michigan. He is fluent in English, and translated from Japanese a book written by his father, Tsunenari Tokugawa titled Edo no idenshi (江戸の遺伝子) or The Edo Inheritance. He has translated Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book 'Green Zone' and books of Tony Blair, George Soros, George Friedman, Amy Chua, Frances McCall Rosenbluth into the Japanese language. He has also worked for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

In 2019, Tokugawa attempted to win a seat on the House of Councillors for the Shizuoka District, which he lost. He ran as a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and campaigned on completely decommissioning the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant, which was shut down following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.

Tokugawa became the head of the Tokugawa clan after his father stepped down from the role on 1 January 2023.