ISHIHARA Hirotaka
Profile
- Date of birth
- June 19, 1964
- Place of Birth
- Kanagawa
- Political party
- Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
- Affiliation
- Member of the House of Representatives
- Constituency
- Tokyo 3rd
- Number of times elected
- 6
Past career
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- 1988
- Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Keio University (BA)
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- Oct. 2025
- Minister of the Environment
Minister of State for Nuclear Emergency Preparedness
(Takaichi Cabinet) - 2024
- Elected to the House of Representatives (HR), Japan (50th Election)
Senior Director, HR Standing Committee on Environment
Chairperson, Special Committee for the Promotion of Isolated Islands and Peninsula Areas, LDP - 2023
- Special Advisor to the Prime Minister (in charge of key policies including national security and nuclear disarmament, and non-proliferation issues) (2nd KISHIDA Cabinet (2nd Reshuffled))
Acting Chief Secretary, Headquarters for Realizing Green Transformation, LDP - 2022
- Director-General, Information Bureau, LDP
Chief Director, Special Committee on Investigation of Nuclear Power Issues, HR - 2021
- Elected to the House of Representatives, Japan (49th Election)
Chief Secretary, Research Commission on Environment and Global Warming Countermeasures, LDP (～2025) - 2020
- Chair, HR Standing Committee on Environment
- 2019
- State Minister of the Environment and State Minister of Cabinet Office
(4th ABE Cabinet (2nd Reshuffled)) - 2018
- Deputy Secretary-General, LDP
- 2017
- Elected to the House of Representatives, Japan (48th Election)
- 2016
- State Minister of Cabinet Office
(3rd ABE Cabinet) - 2014
- Elected to the House of Representatives, Japan (47th Election)
- 2013
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs
(2nd ABE Cabinet) - 2012
- Elected to the House of Representatives, Japan (46th Election)
- 2005
- Elected to the House of Representatives, Japan for the first time (44th Election)
- 1988
- Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited
Counsellor, Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.