Nonomura Hiroo

**Hiroo** Nonomura (野々村 **広男**) is the Chief Cabinet Secretary in Japan working for the Prime Minister.

Against his rough first impression, Mr. Nonomura does care deeply for the country and most of all his family.

## Personality

He acts very rough, bitter, cautious and rude to the Taimanin on his inspection, most, including Igawa Sakura, seem to quiet dislike him.

Being a harsh contrast to the friendlier Prime Minister, he looks mostly vexed but is also very intelligent. He knows that part of the ruling party thinks he is a pawn to the UFS, however, this is not the case, and he really cares for his country. Against the surface level, he deeply cares for his family and country. Hiroo has a good instinct with people, something that left him fearful of the prime minister's rise to power.

In the face of his own death, he remains resolute if it is about protecting the people he cares for. While talking to Koukawa Asuka, he showed a bit of a softer side as a father, and was even worried about Asuka. Nonomura also trusts Yamamoto Nobushige deeply.

## Appearance

He is an older, rather angry looking man, with a receding hairline

## History

Nonomura was a veteran politician, driven by love for his country. He rose as a member of the Member of the House of Representatives and Deputy leader of the ruling Liberal National Party. An influential legislator from the K Prefecture. He is the leader of the Nonomura faction, the largest faction of the ruling party, and is a major figure in the pro-UFS part of the Liberal National Party.

Unlike others, he gained political power in a clean way, but observing the quick rise Asai Koujirou, he realized quickly that Asai was nobody to be trusted. Wishing to counter any negatives, Hiroo tried to act as a balancing force and became the Chief Cabinet Secretary of the Asai Cabinet. Nonomura is considered to be a key figure in the Asai administration, an expert in political affairs who has supported successive Liberal-National Party governments from behind the scenes. He also has a wide network of contacts in the opposition parties.

As a veteran politician, was concerned about the high spending for the Taimanin. He visited Gosha Academy a few times, to judge the value they held and questions typically if they could be trusted. Though, this might really just come from being cautious and not antagonistic.

In Taimanin Asagi 3 he does overlook some of the spending of Gosha Village and the Taimanin. He is seen by Sawaki Kosuke, while in talks with Asagi. Sakura almost unable to hide her dislike towards the always serious, questioning everything.

Later on, Nonomura's family was taken indirectly hostage by Asai, and Nonomura was forced to meet Asagi, in a remote location and kill himself or face consequences. A plan of Asai to blame the Taimanin for a murder and start a raid with the Kanda Brigade. Nonomura out of fear for his family would do so but wrote a secret letter to Yamamoto Nobushige, explaining the situation should things escalate after his death. Killing himself in front of Koukawa Asuka that arrived before Igawa Asagi. He had one last talk, stating Asuka reminded him of his children. As desired by Nomad and Asai Koujirou, his death could be used as an excuse to invade Gosha Village and push for fusion of Japan with the UFS. The official story given to the public was a political murder of the Chinese Union, which was in the interest of Nomad, that was mostly active in the UFS.

With Asai's death in the Asuka Route and the help of Nonomura's letter, this could be avoided. Yamamoto Nobushige near the end mentions that without the letter, the chaos that Asai produced could have escalated further.

## Additional Material

* The entire Nonomura plot was cut from the OVA.

## Powers/Abilities

**Main Weapon**: Politics

* **Smart**

## Trivia

* Nonomura could be seen as a false flag antagonist, which in the end turned out to be a ally of the Taimanin.

## Gallery

Concept Art with Koujirou Asai