Face Photo: HIRAGUCHI Hiroshi

HIRAGUCHI Hiroshi

Minister of Justice

Profile

Date of birth
Hometown
Etajima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Political Party
Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
Affiliation
Member of the House of Representatives

Past Career

Education

  • Graduated from the Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo

Career

  • Minister of Justice
    (2nd Takaichi Cabinet)
    Elected to the House of Representatives at the 51st General Election

  • Minister of Justice
    (1st Takaichi Cabinet)

  • Deputy Chairperson, Policy Research Council, LDP
    Director, Committee on Environment, House of Representative (HR)

  • Director, Special Committee on Political Reform, HR
    Elected to the HR at the 50th General Election

  • Vice-Chairperson, Public Relations Headquarters, LDP
    Director-General, Information Bureau, LDP

  • Chairperson, Special Committee on Political Ethics and Election Law, LDP

  • Chairperson, Federation of Hiroshima Prefecture LDP Branches

  • Chairperson, Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, LDP

  • Elected to the HR at the 49th General Election

  • Director, Land, Infrastructure, Transport Division, LDP

  • Director, Health, Labor and Welfare Division, LDP

  • State Minister of Justice
    (4th Abe Cabinet (Reshuffled))

  • Chairperson, Committee on Judicial Affairs, HR

  • Elected to the HR at the 48th General Election

  • Deputy Secretary-General, LDP

  • State Minister of Environment
    (3rd Abe Cabinet (Reshuffled))

  • Member, Committee on Cabinet, HR

  • Director, Committee on Budget, HR
    Member, Special Committee on Regional Revitalization, HR

  • Elected to the HR at the 47th General Election

  • Director, Committee on Cabinet, HR

  • Director, Special Committee on Disasters, HR
    Acting Director, Land, Infrastructure, Transport Division, LDP

  • Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Justice
    (2nd Abe Cabinet)

  • Director, Committee on Cabinet, HR

  • Director, Special Committee on Disaster Prevention, HR
    Deputy Director, Land, Infrastructure, Transport Division, LDP

  • Elected to the HR at the 46th General Election

  • Elected to the HR at the 44th General Election

  • Chairperson, Liberal Democratic Party(LDP) Hiroshima Prefecture HR 2nd Electoral District Branch

  • Deputy Director-General, River Bureau, MLIT

  • Chief of Akita Prefectural Police Headquarters

  • Director, Coordination Division, Construction Economics Bureau, Ministry of Construction
    (currently the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism 【MLIT】)

  • Director, Planning Division, Planning Department, Tottori Prefecture

  • Studied at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School (Regional Planning) in the United States

  • Joined the Ministry of Construction, assigned to the Road Bureau