HIRAGUCHI Hiroshi
Minister of Justice
Profile
- Date of birth
- August 1, 1948
- Place of Birth
- Etajima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
- Political party
- Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
Past career
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- 1972
- Graduated from the Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo
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- Oct. 2025
- Minister of Justice
(Takaichi Cabinet) - Nov. 2024
- Deputy Chairperson, Policy Research Council, LDP
Director, Committee on Environment, House of Representative (HR) - Oct. 2024
- Director, Special Committee on Political Reform, HR
Elected to the HR at the 50th General Election - Sep. 2023
- Vice-Chairperson, Public Relations Headquarters, LDP
Director-General, Information Bureau, LDP - Oct. 2022
- Chairperson, Special Committee on Political Ethics and Election Law, LDP
- Sep. 2022
- Chairperson, Federation of Hiroshima Prefecture LDP Branches
- Nov. 2021
- Chairperson, Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, LDP
- Oct. 2021
- Elected to the HR at the 49th General Election
- Oct. 2020
- Director, Land, Infrastructure, Transport Division, LDP
- Oct. 2019
- Director, Health, Labor and Welfare Division, LDP
- Oct. 2018
- State Minister of Justice
(4th Abe Cabinet (Reshuffled)) - Nov. 2017
- Chairperson, Committee on Judicial Affairs, HR
- Oct. 2017
- Elected to the HR at the 48th General Election
- Aug. 2016
- Deputy Secretary-General, LDP
- Oct. 2015
- State Minister of Environment
(3rd Abe Cabinet (Reshuffled)) - Mar. 2015
- Member, Committee on Cabinet, HR
- Jan. 2015
- Director, Committee on Budget, HR
Member, Special Committee on Regional Revitalization, HR - Dec. 2014
- Elected to the HR at the 47th General Election
- Oct. 2014
- Director, Committee on Cabinet, HR
- Sep. 2014
- Director, Special Committee on Disasters, HR
Acting Director, Land, Infrastructure, Transport Division, LDP - Sep. 2013
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Justice
(2nd Abe Cabinet) - Feb. 2013
- Director, Committee on Cabinet, HR
- Jan. 2013
- Director, Special Committee on Disaster Prevention, HR
Deputy Director, Land, Infrastructure, Transport Division, LDP - Dec. 2012
- Elected to the HR at the 46th General Election
- Sep. 2005
- Elected to the HR at the 44th General Election
- Oct. 2004
- Chairperson, Liberal Democratic Party（LDP） Hiroshima Prefecture HR 2nd Electoral District Branch
- Jun. 2000
- Deputy Director-General, River Bureau, MLIT
- Aug. 1995
- Chief of Akita Prefectural Police Headquarters
- Jul. 1993
- Director, Coordination Division, Construction Economics Bureau, Ministry of Construction
(currently the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism 【MLIT】) - Oct. 1981
- Director, Planning Division, Planning Department, Tottori Prefecture
- Jul. 1975
- Studied at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School (Regional Planning) in the United States
- Apr. 1972
- Joined the Ministry of Construction, assigned to the Road Bureau