HANASHI Yasuhiro
August 10, 2022 - November 11, 2022
Minister of Justice
Profile
- Date of birth
- October 12, 1959
- Birthplace
- Tokyo
- Political party
- Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
- Affiliation
- Member of the House of Representatives
- Constituency
- Ibaraki 3rd District
- Numbers of elected
- 6
Past career
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- Mar. 1982
- Graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo
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- Aug. 2022
- Minister of Justice (2nd Kishida Cabinet (reshuffled))
- Dec.2021
- Chief Director, Committee on Judicial Affairs of the House of Representatives
Director, Committee on Budget of the House of Representatives - Oct.2021
- Elected to the House of Representative for the sixth time (49th General Election)
Acting Chairperson, Policy Research Council, LDP
Manager, Research Commission on the Tax System, LDP
Deputy Chairperson, Research Commission on General Policy for Agriculture and Forestry, LDP
Chairperson, Headquarters for Livestock Epidemic Control Including Avian Influenza
Deputy Chairperson, Research Commission on Info-Communications Strategy, LDP
Deputy Chairperson, Research Commission on the Judiciary System, LDP
Permanent Manager, Headquarters for Promoting the Fiscal Consolidation, LDP
Deputy Secretary-General, Headquarters for Fiscal Policy, Policy Research Council, LDP - Sep.2020
- State Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Suga Cabinet)
- Oct.2019
- Chief Director, Committee on Judicial Affairs of the House of Representatives
Director, Committee on Budget of the House of Representatives - Sep.2019
- Deputy Secretary-General, LDP
Chairperson, Committee on Disaster Management in Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, LDP - Nov.2018
- Deputy Chairperson, Research Commission on Agriculture, Forestry and Food Strategy, LDP
Deputy Chairperson, Research Commission on Info-Communications Strategy, LDP
Deputy Chairperson, Research Commission on the Judiciary System, LDP
Deputy Chairperson, Research Commission on Public Safety and Counter-Terrorism, LDP - Oct.2018
- Chairperson, Committee on Judicial Affairs of the House of Representatives
- Oct.2017
- Elected to the House of Representative for the fifth time (48th General Election)
State Minister of Justice (4th Abe Cabinet)
State Minister of Cabinet Office (4th Abe Cabinet) - Aug.2017
- State Minister of Justice (3rd Abe Cabinet (3rd reshuffled))
State Minister of Cabinet Office (3rd Abe Cabinet (3rd reshuffled)) - Sep.2016
- Director, Committee on Budget of the House of Representatives
- Aug.2016
- Director, Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Division, LDP
- Jan.2016
- Chairperson, Committee on Judicial Affairs of the House of Representatives
- Nov.2015
- Deputy Secretary-General, LDP
Deputy Chairperson, Research Commission on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Strategy, LDP - Dec.2014
- Elected to the House of Representative for the fourth time (47th General Election)
State Minister of Justice (3rd Abe Cabinet (reshuffled))
State Minister of Cabinet Office (3rd Abe Cabinet (reshuffled)) - Sep.2014
- State Minister of Justice (2nd Abe Cabinet (reshuffled))
State Minister of Cabinet Office (2nd Abe Cabinet) - Sep.2013
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Finance (2nd Abe Cabinet)
- Feb.2013
- Chief Secretary, Administrative Reform Promotion Headquarters, LDP
- Jan.2013
- Director, Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Strategy of the House of Representatives
Manager, Commission on the Constitution of the House of Representatives
Chief Secretary, Headquarters for Accelerating Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake, LDP
Chief Secretary, Research Commission on Public Safety and Counter-Terrorism, LDP - Dec.2012
- Elected to the House of Representative for the third time (46th General Election)
- Sep.2007
- Deputy Chairperson, Diet Affairs Committee, LDP
- Feb.2007
- Director, Committee on Internal Affairs and Communications of the House of Representatives
- Jan.2006
- Chairperson, Subcommittee on Measures for Livestock and Dairy Farming, LDP
- Sep.2005
- Elected to the House of Representative for the second time (45th General Election)
- Nov.2003
- Elected to the House of Representatives for the first time (43rd General Election)
- Mar.1999
- Secretary to Mr. HANASHI Nobuyuki, a member of the House of Representatives
- Apr.1982
- Joined the National Police Agency
(First Secretary, Embassy of Japan in Indonesia (1994-1997)
Director, Juvenile Division, Community Safety Bureau, National Police Agency)